West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday congratulated all the Trinamool Congress candidates for the landslide victory in the by-elections to the four Assembly seats in the state. ....

A woman head constable who was posted outside the Secretariat in Chennai was crushed to death on Tuesday after a tree fell on her. A male head constable who was standing beside her escaped with minor injuries. ....

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday flagged the issue of hyper activism by green activists in Goa, whose prolific petitions in Courts, the Union Minister said tends to stall development projects. ....

RJD is leading in Tarapur, while JD(U) candidate is ahead in Kusheshwar Asthan in Bihar as counting of votes cast in the October 30 bypolls is underway on Tuesday. ....

A controversy erupted after Krishnanagar Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra entered a counting centre at Ranaghat college in Nadia where the counting of ballots for the Santipur by-election polls was underway on Tuesday. ....

In the last 24 hours, India registered 10,423 new Covid-19 cases and 443 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. ....

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will embark on a padayatra in various parts of Lucknow on November 11. ....

The Congress is offering 40 per cent reservation in tickets to women in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, because the party knows that it would not come to power in the politically crucial state anyway, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal said here on Monday. ....

Congress Madhya Pradesh unit president Kamal Nath exuded confidence that in spite of the might of the BJP, government, administration and money power, it is going to sweep the bypolls held for three assembly and one Lok Sabha seat. ....

"Namami Gange", the flagship programme of the Modi government for ensuring a clean Ganga, on Monday created a Guinness World Record by uploading the most photos with handwritten notes on its Facebook page in an hour. ....

Congress leaders have slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his comment that the party is not appointing a common woman as party president, and questioned him why there is no cabinet-rank woman minister in the state. ....

The Gurugram district administration has imposed a blanket ban on the bursting of fireworks on the occasion of Diwali, Gurpurab, Kartik Purnima, Christmas and New Year eve in Gurugram. ....

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is mulling to seek a report from the Narcotics Control Bureau over the handling of the recent arrests made in the cruise ship drug case involving Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, sources said here on Monday. ....

The Madras High Court bench in Madurai on Monday struck down the law providing 10.5 per cent internal reservation for Vanniars as unconstitutional and also asked whether reservation could be given on caste basis. ....

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said on Monday that he will not be contesting the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls early next year. ....

Australia on Monday recognised Bharat Biotech's Covaxin for allowing entry of travellers who had received the vaccine. ....

In a surprise development, former Maharashtra home minister on Monday morning went to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office without fanfare for the multi-agencies probe into the allegations of extortion and corruption hurled against him by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday greeted the people of Karnataka on the occasion state's Formation Day in Kannada. ....

Amid the allegations of forged caste documents, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede on Monday presented his caste certificates to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) here in Delhi. ....

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had a chance meeting with Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) President Jayant Chaudhary at the VIP lounge of the Lucknow airport which has created a buzz. ....