A six-member delegation of Trinamool Congress MPs met the Election Commission on Friday and raised the issue of "attack" on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram where she was injured while campaigning. ....

BJP leader Shubdu Adhikari filed his nomination from Nandigram assembly constituency on Friday. ....

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari on Friday said chit fund money would be returned to the duped investors in West Bengal if the saffron brigade comes to power in the 2021 Assembly polls. ....

Moving ahead in its probe into the illegal coal smuggling case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee's sister-in-law Menka Gambhir's father and husband for questioning. ....

Madan Kaushik, a minister from the Trivendra Singh Rawat government, has been appointed as new chief of Uttarakhand BJP. Kaushik replaced Bansidhar Bhagat. ....

The Supreme Court on Friday said the Central and the state governments should not appoint persons holding government office as election commissioners. ....

In the latest development in the Mukesh Ambani bomb scare case, the Tihar jail officials have seized a mobile handset and SIM card on which a Telegram account in the name of 'Jaish-ul-Hind' was created, the Delhi Police said on Friday. ....

The Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC)'s preliminary examinations for 2020 shall be conducted on March 21, according to an official announcement here on Friday. ....

Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Badal on Friday said he was tested positive for coronavirus. ....

Three Hindu Mahasabha activists, including a woman, were arrested while trying to offer prayers on Taj Mahal premises. ....

Samajwadi Party MP Mohd. Azam Khan has been granted permission to sell his double-barreled gun. ....

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had alleged on Wednesday that the incident, in which she had received leg injuries in East Midnapore's Nandigram while campaigning, was a 'conspiracy'. ....

Hyderabad police on Thursday night closed almost all flyovers of the city in view of 'Shab-e-Meraj' or the holy night. ....

Quick thinking by a Railway Protection Force (RPF) guard at Goa's Vasco da Gama railway station helped rescue a passenger, after he slipped into the gap between the platform and the train, a statement issued by the South Western Railway said on Thursday. ....

Congress state in-charge for Punjab, Harish Rawat, is trying to bridge the gulf between Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu, a former minister in the Punjab Cabinet. ....

The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal on Thursday criticised the role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for not enquiring about the health of injured Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is admitted to the state-run SSKM Hospital for almost 24 hours now. ....

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is stable, but she is likely to get discharged from the hospital immediately, sources at the state-run SSKM Hospital said on Thursday. ....

Causing a huge scare in corona times, thousands of youths took to the streets across Maharashtra on Thursday to protest the state government notification postponing the upcoming prestigious Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) preliminary examinations, leading to police carrying out a baton charge in some places to disperse them. ....

Bharat Biotech's Covaxin has a negligible number of side effects reported among the beneficiaries of the Covid-19 vaccine, NITI Aayog's Member (Health), V.K. Paul said on Thursday. ....

Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday attacked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying that 'the real liquor mafia of Bihar was the chief minister himself'. ....