India reported 2,539 fresh Covid-19 infectons in the past 24 hours, a marginal drop from previous day's 2,876, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. ....

Almost two years after international travel was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centre has decided to restore all categories of tourist visas for foreign nationals. ....

Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday raised the issue of misuse of social media platforms by political proxies in the Lok Sabha. ....

Barring a few incidents of protests, the schools and colleges in Karnataka on Wednesday resumed functioning across the state after the Special Bench of the High Court passed a verdict dismissing the petitions seeking permission to allow hijab in classrooms. ....

Taking a lead in the Congress, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Wednedsday will be watching 'The Kashmir Files' movie in Raipur. ....

Amid a wave of 'basanti' and chants of 'Rang de Basanti', a revolutionary song, AAP leader and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who donned his traditional 'basanti' turban, took oath of office on Wednesday in this village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, who laid down his life for the country's Independence, amidst a mass gathering of some 400,000 audience. ....

The ongoing controversy between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the Speaker finally has ended after both met for an hour here. ....

Caretaker chief ministers of Goa Pramod Sawant and Manipur N Biren Singh met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. ....

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to grant an urgent hearing on a plea challenging the Karnataka High Court order, which dismissed all petitions seeking direction for permission to wear hijab in classrooms and held that wearing of hijab by Muslim women does not form a part of essential religious practice in Islamic faith. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged children in the 12-14 age group to get vaccinated and all those above 60 years to take the "precautionary" jabs. ....

India registered 2,876 fresh Covid-19 infections in last 24 hours, a marginal rise from 2,568 cases reported on the previous day, Union Health ministry said on Wednesday. ....

Days after facing humiliating defeat in Punjab from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday resigned from the post. ....

Mukesh Ambani's first grandson � Prithvi Ambani has made his school debut at his parent's alma mater, Sunflower Nursery School, Malabar Hill. ....

Reacting storngly to Congress leader Kapil Sibal's criticism of the Gandhi family following the recent poll debacle suffered by the party, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Tuesday that Sibal is 'not rooted in Congress culture', and he 'doesn't know ABC of the Congress'. ....

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Tuesday said that despite challenges posed by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the government ensured that about 22,500 citizens have returned home safely from the war-torn country. ....

Even as the special Bench of the Karnataka High Court dismissed petitions seeking permission to wear hijab in classrooms, the six petitioner college girls, who started the protest, claimed on Tuesday that to them hijab is as important as education. ....

Amidst reports of factionalism over the post of the Chief Minister in Manipur, caretaker Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and another contender for the top post Thongam Biswajit Singh on Tuesday rushed to Delhi to discuss the issue with the central leadership of the BJP. ....

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday called the Karnataka high court's decision upholding ban on entry of girls into government schools wearing hijab, "disappointing". ....

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said that Karnataka High Court's judgment on Hijab has suspended fundamental rights to freedom of religion, culture, freedom of speech and expression. ....

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday informed the Rajya Sabha that a high-level probe has been ordered into the incident of "accidental" firing of missile which landed in Pakistan's territory on March 9. ....