Anindita Sanyal With Agency Inputs

At a key meeting of government think-tank Niti Aayog today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked "Team India" and said "the Governing Council has approached complex issues of governance... in the spirit of cooperative, competitive federalism". The comment comes in the backdrop of four Chief Ministers extending support to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that in view of the intense air pollution in Delhi, all schools will remain closed for three days and the odd-even road rationing scheme may return. All constructions and demolitions will be banned for five days, water will be sprinkled on roads and strict action will be taken against the burning of trash, ...

India today summoned the Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan, Syed Haider Shah, to register protest over the recent escalation in ceasefire violations by Pakistan at the Line of Control and the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir, which have resulted in more than 10 deaths.

Exiled Balochistan activist Brahumdagh Bugti on Monday said he had decided to request India for asylum.

Five people died in Nashik as the city received a record-breaking 204 mm rain in Nashik for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday.

Union home minister Rajnath Singh is in Assam to take stock of the damage caused by the ongoing floods, which have so far killed 26 people. Floods are ravaging Bihar too, where 26 people have died and 25 lakh people have been displaced.

Two people have been arrested allegedly for raping a 25-year-old Israeli tourist in Manali, Himachal Pradesh.

Two days after the alleged suicide of a Deputy Superintendent of Police in Karnataka's Belagavi town, another officer of the same rank has committed suicide in the Kodagu district, police said.

Pakistan's Qawwali singer Amjad Sabri, of the noted Sabri Brothers group, was shot dead in Karachi this afternoon. He was in the city's Liaquatabad area when unidentified gunmen attacked his car. He died later at a local hospital.

Hours after the merger of Samajwadi Party and jailed legislator Mukhtar Ansari's Quami Ekta Dal, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav removed a senior minister - Balram Yadav - who is believed to have negotiated the merger. The merger was said to the brainchild of Shivpal Yadav, a senior leader of the Samajwadi Party and the Chief Minister's uncle.

Five people have been arrested in the Bihar examination scam, which had drawn media glare earlier this month.

One of the six Egyptian mummies in the country is decaying. To stop its further degeneration, the Department of Archeology has started a project that will be a case study for such conservation across the world.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton, attended a gala reception in Mumbai on Sunday, meeting a host of celebrities from the world of business, sports and Bollywood. The dinner was preceded by a cultural programme in which some of the top performers of Bollywood participated.

A powerful earthquake of 6.8 magnitude struck parts of Pakistan and the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border in the Hindukush region. The tremors killed at least six people, reported the Press Trust of India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the members of the Indian community in Washington today, where he reached late in the night from Brussels. During his two-day visit, PM Modi will attend the 4th Nuclear Security Summit, in which leaders of more than 50 countries will assess the threats of nuclear terrorism.

At a key meeting of government think-tank Niti Aayog today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked "Team India" and said "the Governing Council has approached complex issues of governance... in the spirit of cooperative, competitive federalism". The comment comes in the backdrop of four Chief Ministers extending support to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that in view of the intense air pollution in Delhi, all schools will remain closed for three days and the odd-even road rationing scheme may return. All constructions and demolitions will be banned for five days, water will be sprinkled on roads and strict action will be taken against the burning of trash, ...

India today summoned the Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan, Syed Haider Shah, to register protest over the recent escalation in ceasefire violations by Pakistan at the Line of Control and the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir, which have resulted in more than 10 deaths.

Exiled Balochistan activist Brahumdagh Bugti on Monday said he had decided to request India for asylum.

Five people died in Nashik as the city received a record-breaking 204 mm rain in Nashik for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday.

Union home minister Rajnath Singh is in Assam to take stock of the damage caused by the ongoing floods, which have so far killed 26 people. Floods are ravaging Bihar too, where 26 people have died and 25 lakh people have been displaced.

Two people have been arrested allegedly for raping a 25-year-old Israeli tourist in Manali, Himachal Pradesh.

Two days after the alleged suicide of a Deputy Superintendent of Police in Karnataka's Belagavi town, another officer of the same rank has committed suicide in the Kodagu district, police said.

Pakistan's Qawwali singer Amjad Sabri, of the noted Sabri Brothers group, was shot dead in Karachi this afternoon. He was in the city's Liaquatabad area when unidentified gunmen attacked his car. He died later at a local hospital.

Hours after the merger of Samajwadi Party and jailed legislator Mukhtar Ansari's Quami Ekta Dal, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav removed a senior minister - Balram Yadav - who is believed to have negotiated the merger. The merger was said to the brainchild of Shivpal Yadav, a senior leader of the Samajwadi Party and the Chief Minister's uncle.

Five people have been arrested in the Bihar examination scam, which had drawn media glare earlier this month.

One of the six Egyptian mummies in the country is decaying. To stop its further degeneration, the Department of Archeology has started a project that will be a case study for such conservation across the world.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton, attended a gala reception in Mumbai on Sunday, meeting a host of celebrities from the world of business, sports and Bollywood. The dinner was preceded by a cultural programme in which some of the top performers of Bollywood participated.

A powerful earthquake of 6.8 magnitude struck parts of Pakistan and the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border in the Hindukush region. The tremors killed at least six people, reported the Press Trust of India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the members of the Indian community in Washington today, where he reached late in the night from Brussels. During his two-day visit, PM Modi will attend the 4th Nuclear Security Summit, in which leaders of more than 50 countries will assess the threats of nuclear terrorism.