Edited By Surabhi Malik With Inputs From Agencies

Odisha minister Jogendra Behera has landed himself in a controversy after his personal security officer was seen helping him wear his sandals during an Independence Day event in Keonjhar on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today joined millions across the country in bending and stretching for asanas to mark the second International Yoga Day, which he said has become a "jan andolan" or people's movement since it started last year.

Ahead of a key meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in Seoul on Friday, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar made an unannounced visit to China this week to seek support for India's membership of the elite club. He was in Bejing from June 16-17 and held bilateral consultations with his counterpart.

Noted lawyer Indira Jaising's NGO 'Lawyers' Collective' has been barred from receiving foreign funds after its licence was suspended for six months by the Home Ministry for alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act or the FCRA.

Sajid Ahmad, the alleged leader of a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed terror module busted in Delhi yesterday, was training as a dancer and had auditioned for reality TV shows as a choreographer.

Over the past many years, Kota in Rajasthan has become a crucial stopover for students who want to be among the nearly 10,000 that IITs accept every year. The small desert town, nearly 250 km from Jaipur, accommodates a range of coaching institutes to prep students for the IIT entrance exam.

Hearing a plea on dance bars in Mumbai, the Supreme Court today observed that it is "better to dance than to go to streets for begging or earning livelihood through unacceptable means."

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal carpooled with Transport Minister Gopal Rai and Health Minister Satyendar Jain to reach his office as the second round of his Odd-Even experiment was put to its real test today with schools and offices opening after a long weekend. His car's license plate ends in an odd number - which means he cannot use it toda...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has in his Union Budget today pledged to invest crores to improve the lives of farmers and the poor and boost the rural economy, promising to double farmers' incomes by 2022.

The scheme to clean the River Ganga in Varanasi, which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency, was today described as a failure by the country's top environmental court.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday visited the air force base in Punjab's Pathankot district that was attacked by six terrorists from Pakistan on January 2. Accompanied by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, he spent almost two hours there.

India has strongly taken up with the US recent instances of deportation of Indian students who were headed to two California-based universities, the ministry of external affairs has said.

A petition to stop the release of the youngest of six men who gang-raped and tortured a student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012 was rejected today by the Supreme Court, which questioned: "Under what jurisdiction can we extend his detention?" The convict, now 20, was released on Sunday from a correctional home - where he spent three years - to a no...

The youngest of the six men convicted for raping and torturing a medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012 is set to be released today from a correctional home. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Monday a plea against his release that was filed by the Delhi Commission for Women late last night, but declined to give it an immediate heari...

Last week, the National Green Tribunal had directed that no new diesel vehicles will be registered in Delhi.

Odisha minister Jogendra Behera has landed himself in a controversy after his personal security officer was seen helping him wear his sandals during an Independence Day event in Keonjhar on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today joined millions across the country in bending and stretching for asanas to mark the second International Yoga Day, which he said has become a "jan andolan" or people's movement since it started last year.

Ahead of a key meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in Seoul on Friday, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar made an unannounced visit to China this week to seek support for India's membership of the elite club. He was in Bejing from June 16-17 and held bilateral consultations with his counterpart.

Noted lawyer Indira Jaising's NGO 'Lawyers' Collective' has been barred from receiving foreign funds after its licence was suspended for six months by the Home Ministry for alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act or the FCRA.

Sajid Ahmad, the alleged leader of a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed terror module busted in Delhi yesterday, was training as a dancer and had auditioned for reality TV shows as a choreographer.

Over the past many years, Kota in Rajasthan has become a crucial stopover for students who want to be among the nearly 10,000 that IITs accept every year. The small desert town, nearly 250 km from Jaipur, accommodates a range of coaching institutes to prep students for the IIT entrance exam.

Hearing a plea on dance bars in Mumbai, the Supreme Court today observed that it is "better to dance than to go to streets for begging or earning livelihood through unacceptable means."

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal carpooled with Transport Minister Gopal Rai and Health Minister Satyendar Jain to reach his office as the second round of his Odd-Even experiment was put to its real test today with schools and offices opening after a long weekend. His car's license plate ends in an odd number - which means he cannot use it toda...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has in his Union Budget today pledged to invest crores to improve the lives of farmers and the poor and boost the rural economy, promising to double farmers' incomes by 2022.

The scheme to clean the River Ganga in Varanasi, which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency, was today described as a failure by the country's top environmental court.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday visited the air force base in Punjab's Pathankot district that was attacked by six terrorists from Pakistan on January 2. Accompanied by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, he spent almost two hours there.

India has strongly taken up with the US recent instances of deportation of Indian students who were headed to two California-based universities, the ministry of external affairs has said.

A petition to stop the release of the youngest of six men who gang-raped and tortured a student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012 was rejected today by the Supreme Court, which questioned: "Under what jurisdiction can we extend his detention?" The convict, now 20, was released on Sunday from a correctional home - where he spent three years - to a no...

The youngest of the six men convicted for raping and torturing a medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012 is set to be released today from a correctional home. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Monday a plea against his release that was filed by the Delhi Commission for Women late last night, but declined to give it an immediate heari...

Last week, the National Green Tribunal had directed that no new diesel vehicles will be registered in Delhi.