West Bengal has become "home to illegal bomb-making" and the state administration cannot escape its accountability for the "alarming decline" in law and order, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Saturday.
The Rajya Sabha today passed a legislation that provides for up to five years in jail for those attacking doctors and healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 outbreak or during any situation akin to the current pandemic.
The Delhi Police today said it has arrested a Chinese woman and her Nepalese associate, and claimed that they were paying huge amounts of money to freelance journalist Rajeev Sharma for allegedly passing sensitive information to "Chinese intelligence".
By now, we should have accepted community transmission of coronavirus in Delhi, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said taking at jibe at the central government as the national capital reported continued to record around 4,000 new coronavirus cases a day for a week, taking the tally to 2.38 lakh.
Decommissioned aircraft carrier INS Viraat today set sail for the last time, on way to Alang in Gujarat, where it will be broken down and sold as scrap.
Congress MP P Chidambaram hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP spokespersons over the farm bills controversy, accusing them of "maliciously" distorting the party's 2019 manifesto amid a political row between the two parties on this issue
An economic reliefpackage of Rs 1,350 crore was announced this afternoon for Jammu and Kashmir's ailing business sector - hit hard by prolonged Covid lockdown and the outbreak - by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, who took oath last month as the union territory's L-G. A discount of 50 per cent for people of J&K in water and electricity bills for a year is one of the key highlights of today's announcements, which cover small and medium enterprises, tourism industry, among other sectors.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the high-level meeting to mark 75th anniversary of the United Nations and the General Debate next week and the vision he outlines will be truly significant, especially on the eve of India entering the Security Council, according to India's envoy to the UN Ambassador TS Tirumurti.
The Rajya Sabha today passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2020, whereby fresh insolvency proceedings will not be initiated for at least six months starting from March 25 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The CBI has filed a supplementary chargesheet in the AgustaWestland case that names 15 individuals including middleman Christian Michel - a British national extradited to India from Dubai in December 2018 and currently in Delhi's Tihar Jail
Amid the standoff in Ladakh between India and China, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has said that the limit of 5.5 metres width imposed on the Chardham all-weather road by the Supreme Court was not enough from a strategic perspective.
India overtook the United States of America to record the highest COVID-19 recoveries in a day across the world, the Health Ministry has tweeted. According to the government data, a record 95,885 people recovered from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours taking the tally of total recoveries past 42 lakh. India's total case count breached 53 lakh mark with 93,337 new infections today.
One coach of a local train derailed near Atgaon station, about 95 kms from Mumbai, this morning, but there was no report of injury to any passenger, an official said.
There have been 3,186 ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the LoC (Line of Control) in Jammu over the past eight months (from January 1 to September 7), the government told Parliament this week
The Rajya Sabha on Saturday passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2020, whereby fresh insolvency proceedings will not be initiated for at least six months starting from March 25 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
