A rifleman was killed while two others were injured on Friday in a lightning strike incident in J&K's Poonch district. ....

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday fired fresh salvos at the Narendra Modi government over the Delta Plus variant of Covid and asked why no testing on a large-scale was being done to stop its spread. ....

For the second time in a month, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday raided the house of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. ....

India recorded 51,667 new Covid-19 cases and 1,329 deaths in the last 24 hours taking the country's total caseload to 3,01,34,445, according to data released by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Friday. ....

Uttar Pradesh has vaccinated one crore people, six days before the end of its 'Mission June' deadline. ....

Former Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday slammed the Modi-led government for insisting on elections in Jammu and Kashmir before granting statehood. ....

Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Thursday said that he has directed the police to arrest, within 24 hours, the people who killed a BJP local woman leader in broad daylight. ....

BJP chief J.P. Nadda on Thursday alleged that the Congress party has stooped to such a low level of politics that while criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it has also started insulting the nation. ....

Custom officials at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here have seized 80 iPhones from two passengers arriving from Sharjah. ....

Thousands of people staged a protest over the delicate issue of naming the upcoming greenfield Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), a day after the Maharashtra government handed it over to the Adani Group for operations, here on Thursday. ....

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the PM addressed Toycathon-2021 and advised the country's gaming and toy industry to play a big role in this sector. ....

Taking a dig at opposition parties and others who are critical of the Central Vista project, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday said the evening ice cream experiences of 'Vidvaans' (learned) are going to get even better. Puri, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, visited the Central Vista Avenue and New Parliament project sites. ....

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of various road projects costing Rs 6,155 crore for Himachal Pradesh and assured that within two years the travelling distance between Delhi and Kullu would be reduced to seven hours. ....

The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the Andhra Pradesh government for insisting on holding physical Class 12 state board exams amid the Covid situation, and expressed discontent with the mechanism adopted by it to conduct the examination. ....

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has sought President Ram Nath Kovind's intervention to 'Save Agriculture and Save Democracy' on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the Emergency and the completion of seven months of the ongoing farmers' agitation, a top farmer leader said here on Thursday. ....

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's all-party meet with Jammu and Kashmir leaders, BJP Chief J.P. Nadda met party leaders from the union territory, who would be participating in the meeting. ....

Thunderstorm with lightning and gusty winds with speed up to 30-40 kmph at isolated places over Delhi, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad are very likely on Thursday, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. ....

Ahead of crucial all party meeting of Jammu and Kashmir leaders with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah met Modi and discussed security situation in the Valley. ....

The statement of Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi was submitted on Thursday in the Surat magisterial court in 'Modi surname' defamation case filed by the BJP MLA from Surat West, Purnesh Modi. After submission, Rahul Gandhi soon left for Delhi. ....

Tamil Nadu Director General of Police J.K. Tripathy has said that there will be zero tolerance to police high-handedness and custodial torture. ....