The Calcutta High Court that has the second highest vacancy of judges in the country had a sigh of relief after the Union ministry of Law and Justice notified the appointment of five Additional Judges. Before this, the Allahabad High Court topped the list with 66 vacancies while Calcutta had a vacancy of 41 judges. ....

Demonetisation was a foolish decision, the implementation of GST was flawed and foolish, but the most foolish decision of the central government yet was the refusal to give cash doles to the poorest 20-25 per cent of the country's population during the pandemic, former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said on Thursday. ....

The Indian Air Force (IAF) plane, C-17 Globemaster carrying 35 evacuees from Kabul, landed at the Hindon Air Force Station in Ghaziabad on Thursday. ....

Vishwa Hindu Sena president, Arun Pathak, has once again, made a controversial statement on social media. ....

India on Thursday reported 46,164 new Covid cases, around 22 per cent jump in the last 24 hours. A total of 607 deaths were also reported in the time span, pushing the total death count in India at 4,36,365, according to the data released by the Union Health Ministry. ....

Rahul Gandhi has not yet started tweeting frequently even after the social media platform restored his account. ....

A MiG-21 fighter jet, on a training sortie, crashed near a village in Rajasthan's Barmer district on Wednesday evening but the pilot managed to eject safely, the Indian Air Force said. ....

Fully vaccinated international Indian tourists can move freely around Sri Lanka, after an on-arrival test as the country reopens borders to India after a long anticipated wait. ....

In the wake of schools reopening from September 1 for classes IX to XII, the Rajasthan education department has finally issued Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) under which schools shall run in two shifts. ....

Hours after the Congress-led Punjab government accepted the demands of sugarcane farmers, the party's General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government for not increasing the price of sugarcane in the state. ....

The Rajasthan government wants to collect revenue by selling good quality liquor and there is no proposal to ban sale of liquor in the state. ....

The Goa government will finally get its own bullet-proof vehicles for VIP movement, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Wednesday. ....

All Afghan nationals must travel to India only on e-visa, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced on Wednesday. ....

In a significant ruling, the Mahad Court has held that the arrest of Union Minister Narayan Tatu Rane by the Maharashtra Police was "justified" in the case pertaining to the 'slap slur' against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, and ordered him not to repeat it. ....

Two unidentified bike borne assailants gunned down a nurse in Bihar's Sitamarhi district, an official said on Wednesday. A doctor of the same hospital is also injured in this incident and is battling for his life. ....

India on Wednesday witnessed a surge in new Covid cases after 37,593 fresh infections and 648 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, as per the Covid bulletin released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. ....

As the Taliban mayhem continues in Afghanistan, students from the war-torn country who have come to Bengaluru to study are facing challenges on multiple fronts. Most will be out of accommodation facilities by next month and they have no clue on whether they will get financial support from their parents. ....

Om Prakash Rajbhar, former Uttar Pradesh minister and president of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party, has promised total prohibition in the state if his party comes to power in the 2022 Assembly elections. ....

As life limps back to normalcy with lifting of curfew restrictions, a huge backlog is being witnessed at the major hospitals that have now opened up their OPD services. ....

Lashing out at Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and P. Chidambaram, senior BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday said those who sold off the assets of the country and committed massive corruption are now levelling baseless and false allegations against the Central government. ....