West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, in a letter to several non-BJP leaders, accused it of trying to establish a “one-party authoritarian rule” in India, calling for a plan of action to be formulated against the BJP after the conclusion of the ongoing assembly elections. ....

Janata Dal-Secular supremo and former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda and his wife Chennamma tested Covid positive and have been admitted in a private hospital for treatment, Karnataka Health Minister K. Sudhakar said on Wednesday. ....

In order to curb the incidents of forceful religious conversions and cheating on the pretext of marriage, the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 2021, passed in the state Assembly, has come into force in the state. ....

The Yogi Adityanath government has withdrawn a case filed against former Deputy SP Shailendra Singh, who had booked mafia don and BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari under POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) in 2004. ....

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar has undergone a successful surgery for extricating a gall-bladder stone early on Wednesday, his family said. ....

India recorded 53,480 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, 4.8 per cent lower than the day before, taking the total tally to 1,21,49,335 on Wednesday. ....

With the rise in the number of Covid cases in the state, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has extended the closure of all schools up to Class 8 to April 4. ....

The fate of several high profile candidates, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her former close aide turned adversary Suvendu Adhikari, will be decided in the second phase polling in West Bengal on April 1 when 30 Assembly constituencies will go to the polls. ....

Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav said that massive corruption and loot is taking place in several departments of Bihar government and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is directly responsible for it. ....

Amid the surge in coronavirus cases, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Tuesday wrote to Chief Secretaries of all states and Union Territories seeking action at the district levels, including public health measures, focus on mortality reduction and 100 per cent saturation vaccination of priority age groups. ....

A second lockdown is expected to be imposed from April 2 or April 3 in Maharashtra for a limited period, sources in the state government said. According to the sources, the administration, after receiving orders on Sunday from CM Uddhav Thackeray, has started preparing for the restrictions. ....

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday appealed to the voters in Nandigram to keep their cool and vote for her party Trinamool Congress. ....

Sparking fresh health concerns, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar, who has been unwell since Sunday, was rushed to the Breach Candy Hospital here after he developed fresh abdominal pains, a top party leader said on Tuesday. ....

President Ram Nath Kovind underwent cardiac bypass surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Tuesday morning, a statement from the President House confirmed. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed his apprehension that the DMK and the Congress will "insult more women in Tamil Nadu" if they are voted to power, citing DMK leader and former Union Minister A. Raja's attack on Chief Minister K. Palaniswami and his mother. ....

"About LDF it can be said, Judas betrayed Lord Christ for a few pieces of silver and the Left Democratic Front betrayed Kerala for a few pieces of gold," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday at an election rally as he launched a direct attack on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. ....

After Sanjay Raut said he had cautioned the Maha Vikas Aghadi leaders on Sachin Vaze, former Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam on Tuesday sought the interrogation of Sanjay Raut by the NIA. ....

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday said the department will review the surge of Covid-19 cases in the national Capital and the availability of Intensive Care Units (ICU) beds, especially for Coronavirus patients. ....

A new biography on former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has stoked a fresh controversy with his claim that he had recommended that Gen. Bipin Rawat supersede two senior officers to become the Army Chief, "convinced that he was a better choice", with the author describing it as "a bold move", contrary to claims at the time that the correct procedures had been followed. ....

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and his wife Nutan Goel on Tuesday took the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine at the Delhi Heart and Lung Institute. ....