Two persons have been killed and one injured in an explosion in an idol-making unit in the old city of Hyderabad. ....

The BJP on Friday said that unveiling of the Adi Shankaracharya statue at Kedarnath by Prime Minister Narendra Modi or ongoing works at Varanasi and Deepotsav at Ayodhya are 'giant strides towards cultural rejuvenation'. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will celebrate Diwali on Thursday with soldiers deployed on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, according to official sources. ....

India registered 12,885 new Covid-19 cases and 461 deaths in the last 24 hrs, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. ....

The technical committee of World Health Organization (WHO) today granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) to made in India Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin, according to sources. The committee had on October 26 sought additional clarifications from Covaxin manufacturer Bharat Biotech. ....

UP Minister Anand Swarup Shukla has said that Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav may even convert to Islam to appease Muslims. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the vaccination drive against Covid-19 needs a 'Har Ghar Dastak' approach to achieve its target. ....

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday termed Pakistan's decision to disallow the usage of its airspace for the Srinagar-Sharjah flights as "unfortunate". ....

President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday appointed two judicial officers as judges of the common High Court of J&K and Ladakh Union Territories. ....

The ongoing rivalry between the two Chief Ministers of Goa and Delhi heated up once again on Wednesday, with Pramod Sawant accusing Arvind Kejriwal of copying his scheme for government-sponsored pilgrimages and passing it off as his own. ....

The Karnataka High Court has held that the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act can't be invoked only because the victim hails from that community. ....

Farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri have turned down the olive branch extended to them by Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, an accused in the October 3 incident in which four farmers were mowed down by his car. ....

The Tamil Nadu government has declared Wednesday as a holiday for schools in 18 districts following heavy rains. ....

Buoyed by the bypoll results, Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said that the electoral winds were now blowing against the BJP. ....

The Centre on Wednesday rushed high-level teams to nine states and Union Territories having high caseload of dengue. ....

The number of people in Uttar Pradesh who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 has crossed the 3.35 crore mark. ....

India registered 11,903 fresh Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Wednesday. ....

Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday resigned from the Congress and sent a seven-page letter to party President Sonia Gandhi. He named his party the Punjab Lok Congress. ....

A direct flight from temple city Bhubaneswar to the Pink City Jaipur in Rajasthan was launched on Tuesday. ....

A holiday Special Court on Tuesday remanded former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh to the custody of Enforcement Directorate till November 6 in a money-laundering case, 16 hours after he was arrested at 1.00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ....