The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar on Monday placed officials under suspension, withheld payment of salaries and issued show-cause notices to them after they were found wanting in discharge of their duties during water-logging in Patna this month.
A majority of 127 arrested ISIS sympathizers from across India were following speeches of controversial preacher Zakir Naik, NIA investigation has revealed.
Nepal and China have agreed to jointly re-measure the height of Mount Everest, amidst reports that the world's highest peak may have shrunk after the massive earthquake that shook the Himalayan nation in 2015.
The Tripura Police on Monday arrested a former chief engineer of the state Public Works Department (PWD) for alleged involvement in financial irregularities amounting to Rs 600 crore.
Taking a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said the speeches made by the former will eventually help the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance win more votes in assembly elections.
The Rajasthan government on Monday decided to withdraw the allowances being given to those detained under MISA (Maintenance of Internal Security Act) during the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi, saying they were not freedom fighters.
Campaigning for the BJP for the Maharashtra assembly election, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for scrapping special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
As Kolkata celebrates city boy Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel glory, his classmate and school teacher remember the MIT professor to be an introvert, who showed sparks of brilliance.
Written by Sneha Mary Koshy | Tuesday October 15, 2019, Thiruvananthapuram
With 83 flight hours and a flying licence from Johannesburg in South Africa under his belt, 20-year-old Adam Harry wanted to train to become a commercial pilot. But he ended up being grounded at his home in Kerala for an entire year instead, and all because he had decided to come out with the truth about his gender identity.
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Monday attacked the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance, saying protesting farmers were fired upon by police near Pune during their regime.
India's decision to end the special status of Jammu and Kashmir is an internal matter, Syrian envoy to New Delhi Riad Abbas said on Monday, adding that any government has the right to take decisions to protect its citizens.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked the Congress to explain its "love for Article 370" to the families of security personnel who were killed in the line of duty in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Border Security Force (BSF) has sought a modern "anti-drone system" that could detect and destroy a lone or swarm of suspicious aerial platforms in the operations area, in the wake of recent spurt of UAVs being spotted across the India-Pakistan international border.
