State Election Commissioner (SEC) K.K. Sharma, while addressing a press conference on Monday, informed that the fourth phase of District Development Council elections has been conducted successfully in Jammu and Kashmir, registering 50.08 per cent voter turnout. ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that some political parties are trying to vitiate the atmosphere and their doublespeak on the issue of farmers should be exposed. ....

Medical services have been started at the Singhu border for free treatment of the protesting farmers suffering from any ailment. A large number of farmers have camped at the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders protesting against the new Union agricultural laws. ....

The Delhi government on Monday said the Centre should implement the MSP in the country on the basis of the report of the Swaminathan Commission in order to increase the farmers' income. ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set up team of senior officers to ensure safety and security Covid vaccine storage centres across the state. Yogi Adityanath has asked for a 'EVM strongroom kind of security' in the storage areas. ....

Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav was put under undeclared house arrest on Monday morning and by afternoon he was arrested and taken away by Uttar Pradesh Police. ....

Amid the ongoing farmer agitation, BJP Bihar chief Sanjay Jaiswal on Monday attacked the Congress, saying the party was like a "leech which turns restless if it does not get blood", and was instigating the farmers. ....

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday extended support to the farmers' 'Bharat Bandh' call and assured that his party workers and supporters would participate in the 'peaceful' protest. ....

The Supreme Court on Monday terming the prayers of Republic TV "ambitious" declined to entertain a petition seeking directions to protect all its employees from arrest in all cases, and transfer all cases to the CBI and also a probe against Mumbai Police Commissioner. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the construction work of the Agra Metro project in Uttar Pradesh through video conferencing. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed gratitude to the Armed Forces on Flag Day, saying "India is proud of heroic service and selfless sacrifice of Armed Forces". ....

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy visited the Eluru government hospital on Monday and met the patients who contracted a mysterious illness. ....

The fourth phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir recorded 8.16 per cent votes across the constituencies spread several districts in the first two hours on Monday, officials said. ....

With 32,981 new coronavirus infections and 391 deaths in the past 24 hours, India's overall tally stood at 96,77,203 on Monday, and the toll touched 1,40,573, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. ....

A sub-inspector of the Uttar Pradesh Police has been detained for questioning after a woman, whom he was in a live-in relationship with, was found dead in mysterious circumstances in her flat in the Chinhat area. ....

The BJP has won six out of the nine seats in the graduate and the teachers' constituencies where results have been declared. ....

The Assam police is studying the reported provocative speech allegedly made by a local Bajrang Dal leader Mithun Nath, threatening to beat up Hindus who will visit churches during the Christmas celebrations. ....

The fifth round meeting of three ministers of the Modi government with farm leaders at Vigyan Bhawan on Saturday was very different from the previous ones. ....

Even as the fifth round of talks between the farmers leaders and the Central government is still going on, farmers at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh Ghazipur border vowed to celebrate Republic Day there on January 26 if the government does not accept their demand to repeal the three agri laws and guarantee the minimum support price (MSP). ....

A political rally organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal's Asansol was attacked allegedly by Trinamool Congress-backed men on Saturday. ....