Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said a total of 89 persons from the state were reported missing since the Republic Day violence in the national capital. Of these, 70 were found in Delhi jails, 14 were traced at other places and five were still missing, he said. ....

A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to freelance journalist Mandeep Punia, who was arrested while covering the violence at the farmers' protest site at Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border last week. ....

Pitted against farmers who earlier used the sheer power of their tractors to break through barricades and other obstacles in their march towards Delhi, police has now come up with innovative methods to check their advance -- iron spikes and wooden boards with big nails cemented on to the roads. ....

A physically challenged widow in Kanpur district has alleged that she was told to pay money to local policemen to fill diesel in their vehicles so that they would agree to search for her minor daughter who was kidnapped last month by a relative. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Chauri Chaura centenary celebrations on Thursday. The event will be celebrated at 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh till February 4, 2022. ....

Amid increased barricading of the spots where the farmers are sitting on protest at the Delhi Borders, the Congress has slammed the Centre for making such arrangements. ....

Cold wave condition continued across Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Tuesday with some relief forecast by the weather office as light spell of snow and rain is expected to occur on Wednesday. ....

A year into the pandemic and after rounds of vaccination, India on Tuesday reported 94 Covid deaths in 24 hours, the lowest since May 14 last year. ....

Farmer unions Monday announced a countrywide 'chakka jam' on February 6 when they would block national and state highways for three hours in protest against the internet ban in areas near their agitation sites, harassment allegedly meted out to them by authorities, and other issues. ....

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday vehemently criticised the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament earlier in the day, saying it would impact farmers and poor people across the country. She said, "it is anti-farmer, anti-people and anti-country budget". ....

A 24-year-old student was allegedly killed by some BSF jawans in a village in Tripura along the India-Bangladesh border over suspicion that he was a cattle smuggler, police said. ....

Hailing Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for coming out with a Budget that can revive the sluggish economy, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Monday said he strongly believes that the Budget will boost the economy which was badly hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic. ....

With more than 100 farmers from the state going 'missing' after the Republic Day violence in Delhi, Punjab ministers led by Sukhjinder Randhawa and Member of Parliament Manish Tewari on Monday met Home Minister Amit Shah here to seek his intervention to known about their whereabouts. ....

Lauding the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, various political leaders on Monday emphasized that the announcements are for the benefit of the farmers. ....

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has described the Union Government's General Budget 2021-22 as the budget to achieve the goals of an 'Aatmanirbhar' (self-reliant) India. ....

After Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman presented the Budget for FY2021-22 in the Parliament on Monday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal termed it as 'favorable for selected companies'. ....

Schools in Gurugram for classes 6 to 8 reopened on Monday with strict Covid-19 protocols. The school timings have been fixed from 10 a.m. to 1.30 p.m., according to an order released by Haryana's Department of School Education. ....

After the presentation of the Union Budget in the Parliament on Monday, mixed reactions emerged from Bihar with the common people saying that there is no direct benefit for them. ....

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed the Centre for not providing cash transfers to the poor in the Union Budget, and said the Modi government was planning to give the country's assets to a few capitalists. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for her marathon 110-minute Budget speech and also inquired about her health soon after she completed her presentation. ....