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A former BJP lawmaker from Gujarat was shot dead by unidentified attackers onboard an Ahmedabad-bound train early on Tuesday.

The Congress seems to have won the semi-finals before the great electoral battle of 2019, but there is still a crucial match to be played before the year draws to a close. The bypoll to Jasdan is slated to be held on December 20, and there would be no better way for the BJP to avenge its recent defeats in the Hindi heartland than to conquer this Co...

A day after the new Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh waived loans availed by the farmer community, the BJP-led administration in Gujarat has tried to match the gesture with a populist measure of its own. The Vijay Rupani government did away with rural electricity bills amounting to Rs650 crore today, in a move that is expecte...

Three lions were killed in Gir forest division in Gujarat's Amreli district when a train ran over them on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. The lion carcasses were found on the railway tracks in the Borala village early on Tuesday morning, forest officials said.

The Delhi Police have seized more than 3,800 kg of firecrackers before Diwali from various parts of the city and arrested 26 people for storing them without license following a Supreme Court order.

The Supreme Court today termed the air quality of Delhi as "critical, pitiable and terrible", and directed the Aam Aadmi Party government to urgently identify vehicles that do not conform to emission standards.

The plan of constructing a stretch of a six-lane bypass passing through Gurgaon's Aravali Biodiversity Park has become a major cause of concern for the residents of the city, who say the project will harm the protected area. Today, thousands of protestors from all walks of life gathered at the park to stage a protest against the proposed project.

Nearly two years since a woman first filed a sexual harassment complaint against a faculty member at the Ashoka University in Sonipat, action is yet to be taken up against him.

The sight of Bryan Adams' silhouette in the dusty air above Gurugram's Leisure Valley Park on Sunday might have been the only positive side-effect of the heavy, toxic smog that has engulfed the National Capital Region. However, with the pollution across Delhi-National Capital Region hitting "very poor" levels - that is over six times above the safe...

The counting of votes for the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) polls resumed on Saturday evening after being suspended for around 14 hours. The counting had been suspended early morning after an attack on the counting centre allegedly by members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP who rejected the charge and claimed...

On an incessant ascent for weeks, fuel prices have hit record highs over the last few days. In Delhi, petrol and diesel are priced at Rs 80.50 and Rs 72.61 respectively while in Kolkata, the prices are even higher at Rs 83.39 and Rs 75.46. The rising prices have had a huge impact on the daily lives of most people, and sparked opposition protests.

The green belt in Sector 91 in Noida has been brought down to make way for a bio-diversity park. Over 3,000 trees have been felled for the 50 crore project that is being carried out by the Noida Authority Department.

Noida citizens have taken the festival of Raksha Bandhan quite literally. To protest the felling of trees in Sector 91 in Noida people have started tying rakhis and hugging trees. Popularly called the green belt, Sector 91 is now being brought down to make a recreational biodiversity park. The 50 crore project is a part of the Noida Authority Depar...

A former BJP lawmaker from Gujarat was shot dead by unidentified attackers onboard an Ahmedabad-bound train early on Tuesday.

The Congress seems to have won the semi-finals before the great electoral battle of 2019, but there is still a crucial match to be played before the year draws to a close. The bypoll to Jasdan is slated to be held on December 20, and there would be no better way for the BJP to avenge its recent defeats in the Hindi heartland than to conquer this Co...

A day after the new Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh waived loans availed by the farmer community, the BJP-led administration in Gujarat has tried to match the gesture with a populist measure of its own. The Vijay Rupani government did away with rural electricity bills amounting to Rs650 crore today, in a move that is expecte...

Three lions were killed in Gir forest division in Gujarat's Amreli district when a train ran over them on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. The lion carcasses were found on the railway tracks in the Borala village early on Tuesday morning, forest officials said.

The Delhi Police have seized more than 3,800 kg of firecrackers before Diwali from various parts of the city and arrested 26 people for storing them without license following a Supreme Court order.

The Supreme Court today termed the air quality of Delhi as "critical, pitiable and terrible", and directed the Aam Aadmi Party government to urgently identify vehicles that do not conform to emission standards.

The plan of constructing a stretch of a six-lane bypass passing through Gurgaon's Aravali Biodiversity Park has become a major cause of concern for the residents of the city, who say the project will harm the protected area. Today, thousands of protestors from all walks of life gathered at the park to stage a protest against the proposed project.

Nearly two years since a woman first filed a sexual harassment complaint against a faculty member at the Ashoka University in Sonipat, action is yet to be taken up against him.

The sight of Bryan Adams' silhouette in the dusty air above Gurugram's Leisure Valley Park on Sunday might have been the only positive side-effect of the heavy, toxic smog that has engulfed the National Capital Region. However, with the pollution across Delhi-National Capital Region hitting "very poor" levels - that is over six times above the safe...

The counting of votes for the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) polls resumed on Saturday evening after being suspended for around 14 hours. The counting had been suspended early morning after an attack on the counting centre allegedly by members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP who rejected the charge and claimed...

On an incessant ascent for weeks, fuel prices have hit record highs over the last few days. In Delhi, petrol and diesel are priced at Rs 80.50 and Rs 72.61 respectively while in Kolkata, the prices are even higher at Rs 83.39 and Rs 75.46. The rising prices have had a huge impact on the daily lives of most people, and sparked opposition protests.

The green belt in Sector 91 in Noida has been brought down to make way for a bio-diversity park. Over 3,000 trees have been felled for the 50 crore project that is being carried out by the Noida Authority Department.

Noida citizens have taken the festival of Raksha Bandhan quite literally. To protest the felling of trees in Sector 91 in Noida people have started tying rakhis and hugging trees. Popularly called the green belt, Sector 91 is now being brought down to make a recreational biodiversity park. The 50 crore project is a part of the Noida Authority Depar...