India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday signed a $60 million loan agreement to reduce floods and the riverbank erosion in Assam, the Finance Ministry said.
Producer-director Brijendra Pal Singh was appointed as the new president of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and chairman of the institute's governing council by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Thursday.
The Jammu & Kashmir BJP on Thursday said it has issued a defamation notice to its expelled leader Gagan Bhagat for levelling "unfounded and abusive" allegations against state party president and state general secretary.
At least 13 people are trapped and feared dead due to flooding in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia hills district, the police said on Thursday.
The Shiv Sena on Thursday continued its tirade against senior ally BJP, saying its rout in the just held state polls was the "defeat of injustice and lies".
The central government has spent over Rs 5,200 crore in advertisements through electronic, print and other media since 2014-15, Lok Sabha was informed today.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has written to the party's chief ministers, urging them to implement the recommendations of the NSUI's 'Behtar Bharat' agenda that includes equal educational opportunities and a system of fair play for students and young people.
The Supreme Court Thursday said death-row convicts should be entitled to meet family members, lawyers and mental health professionals so that their rights are adequately protected at all stages.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has accused the Odisha government of negligence in running shelter homes and hostels for children.
The Supreme Court has said senior citizens should get a meaningful pension to live with dignity, and not just the equivalent of Rs 92 at current value.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday suggested that it is unfair to tag a "one-time loan defaulter Vijay Mallyaji" as a "chor" (thief), adding that the embattled businessman has a four-decade-long track record of timely debt servicing.
The Congress has picked Kamal Nath over Jyotiraditya Scindia for the chief minister's post in Madhya Pradesh. However, in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the race for the top job is still on.
Three people, including a Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker, were killed when armed men threw bombs and opened fire at the vehicle of a TMC legislator at a petrol pump in Joynagar, around 55 km south of Kolkata, on Wednesday evening.
After hours of hectic deliberations over selection of chief ministers, Congress president Rahul Gandhi late on Thursday evening tweeted a smiling picture with Madhya Pradesh chief ministerial contenders Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia and quoted Leo Tolstoy to say that the two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
A local court on Thursday issued a non-bailable warrant against all the accused on the run, including Yogesh Raj named in the Bulandshahr violence case.
