Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday directed all senior officers to work in close co-ordination with states to ensure the safe evacuation of people from high-risk areas in the wake of cyclone Yaas and instructed all concerned departments to ensure timely evacuation of those involved in off-shore activities. ....

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab President Bhagwant Mann and Delhi legislator Raghav Chadha on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to resume talks with the farmers' leaders who are opposing the three farm laws for the last six months. ....

In relief to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) founder Lalu Prasad, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has given him a clean chit in connection with a bribery case involving DLF. ....

Sonali Guha, the turncoat Trinamool Congress leader, who switched to the saffron camp just before the Assembly polls in West Bengal, has written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressing her willingness to return to her old party. ....

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin on Saturday announced lockdown for a week starting from May 24 further tightening some of the relaxations to break the chain of coronavirus infection. ....

A soldier committed suicide on Saturday by handing himself inside the Air Force station in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar district. ....

The Mamata Banerjee government imposed a 'nearly lockdown condition' in the state on May 16 for 15 days and after seven days the restriction imposed in West Bengal have started showing signs of improvement. ....

Trouble has started over the manner in which Kerala Higher Education Minister R. Bindhu was sworn in by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Thursday, taking oath as Professor R. Bindhu. ....

India has so far reported approximately cases of 8,848 mucormycosis or black fungus, one of the rapidly spreading infections observed in those recovering from Covid-19. ....

To reduce uncertainty among students, the Central government will take a decision on Sunday over proposals for the conduct of exams for Class 12th and entrance examinations for professional courses. ....

With more than 20.66 lakh tests conducted in the last 24 hours, India has again set a new record of highest tests conducted in a day. ....

Karnataka which took nearly six months to breach the 4,000 death-mark in the state during first wave of Covid last year, India's tech hub - Bengaluru - broke this dubious record within just 20 days since May 1, which proves that the second wave of Covid is deadlier than the first one that had gripped the state last year since mid-March. ....

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at the BJP government saying due to the mismanagement of Modi system there is now an epidemic of black fungus along with Covid infections in India. ....

Four people were killed after an under-construction tunnel of a hydropower project of the NHPC collapsed in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, police said on Saturday. ....

With the deadly second wave of Covid infections spreading in rural parts of the state, Karnataka on Friday decided to extend its lockdown, slated till May 24, till June 7. ....

Mumbai Police has lodged an FIR invoking charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the master of the Barge Papaa-305 and others in connection with the vessel tragedy in the Arabian Sea which left at least 60 dead and many more missing, officials said on Friday. ....

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday again launched a direct attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Covod vaccination drive in the country, saying 'vaccinate and don't delay it'. ....

Amid infighting in its Punjab unit with former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu training guns at Chief Amarinder Singh over the 2015 sacrilege issue and calling for party leaders to go to Delhi and raise it with the top leadership, the Congress on Friday said it was seized of the matter and will soon act. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday provided a new mantra for Covid management -- 'Jahan Bimar Wahan Upchar'. ....

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who lost to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram, is likely to contest from Bhawanipur. ....