Former Maharashtra home minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday once again skipped the summons of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) citing Covid pandemic, in connection with its probe into the allegations of the alleged bribery. He said that he was ready to join the probe through any "video or audio" medium. ....

President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Memorial and Cultural Centre in Lucknow's Aishbagh, virtually from the Lok Bhawan here. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the Union Council of Ministers on Wednesday to discuss issues related to the Covid situation in the country, preparedness to deal with possible third wave and functioning of few ministries, sources said on Tuesday. ....

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray drove down to Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital (HNRFH) in south Mumbai for a medical checkup, here on Tuesday morning. ....

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has handed over the Jammu Air Force station attack case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), officials said on Tuesday. ....

A day after union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced eight relief measures worth Rs 6,28,993 crore, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a swipe at the government saying it is not a package but another hoax. ....

The Uttar Pradesh government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Karnataka High Court order, which granted protection from arrest to Twitter MD Manish Maheshwari in a case connected with a viral video of attack on an elderly man in Ghaziabad ....

Jailed Bahujan Samaj Party MLA and mafia don, Mukhtar Ansari, has pleaded before a Barabanki court for a television set in his barrack. ....

A young man was allegedly kidnapped for ransom of Rs 2 crore by his friends and then killed. His body was cremated at Balkeshwar Ghat by passing it off as a Covid patient's remains. ....

Two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists including a top commander were killed during an encounter at Parimpora in Srinagar on Monday, police said on Tuesday. ....

Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar of being 'corrupt', the Governor on Monday hit back at the Trinamool Congress government in the state, alleging that it is involved in several corrupt practices. ....

With new Covid cases showing signs of slowing down in the state, the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government on Monday decided to provide some more relaxations on the restrictions imposed on the state till July 15. ....

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced on Monday that its national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will be visiting Punjab's capital on Tuesday. Assembly elections are due in the state in 2022. ....

An encounter broke out between the terrorists and security forces in the Parimpora area of Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar district on Monday, officials said here. ....

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and state law minister Moloy Ghatak along with the state government have filed fresh applications in the Calcutta High Court for their Narada case affidavits on Monday. The application came after the Supreme Court asked the Calcutta High Court to accept the affidavits in regard to the ongoing Narada case probe. ....

An earthquake of magnitude 3.7 struck parts of Uttarakhand on Monday afternoon. The National Center for Seismology (NCS) has traced the epicentre 55 km north of Pithoragarh district. ....

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the Delhi High Court order allowing private unaided schools to collect annual fee and development charges from the students for the period after the lockdown ended in the national capital last year. ....

The CB-CID of the Tamil Nadu police registered a case against 10 police officers, including an assistant commissioner and a sub-inspector for having intimidated a businessman, forcing him to transfer his property to another businessperson. ....

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday once again took a potshot at the Narendra Modi government over the Covid vaccination programme saying the country expected truth from them. ....

In a major breakthrough in the January 26 Red Fort violence and flag hoisting case, the Delhi Police Special Cell on Monday said that it has arrested absconding accused Gurjot Singh, who carried a reward of Rs one lakh oh his head. ....