Tense situation continued in Karnataka in the backdrop of incidents of violence reported due to the hijab row. The police have arrested 15 persons so far. ....

India reported 71,365 fresh Covid infections in a span of 24 hours, a rise of around 6 per cent against 67,597 cases reported on the previous day, said the Union Health ministry on Wednesday morning. ....

A couple from Badaut in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district attempted to kill themselves after going live on Facebook and blamed heavy losses in trade for taking the extreme step, police said. ....

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working President K.T. Rama Rao on Tuesday condemned the comments made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament and demanded that he apologise to people of Telangana. ....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday visited the statue of equality and participated in the Ramanujacharya Sahasrabdi Samaroham at Muchintal on the outskirts of Hyderabad. ....

Slamming the Opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, during his almost two-hour speech in the Parliament, came up with a list of achievements "the government can be proud of". ....

The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Monday issued a fresh list of 24 candidates for the upcoming seven-phased Assembly election starting February 10. The Akhilesh Yadav-led party named Sabhawati Shukla against chief minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur (Urban) Assembly constituency. ....

Sreelekshmi, the wife of Junior Warrant Officer A. Pradip -- one of the victims of the December 8, 2021 IAF helicopter crash that also killed India's first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat and other defence officials, on Monday joined her duties as a Clerk at Taluk office in Kerala's Trissur, Revenue Minister K Rajan said. ....

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday took a gentle swipe at her own male party leaders in Goa, while trying to highlight the significance of the party's decision to allocate a large number of tickets in the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh to women. ....

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a case against underworld don Dwaood Ibrahim and others under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. ....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday requested AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi to take the central security cover, accorded to him after evaluation of threat perception. ....

Amid the hijab row threatening to evolve as a major crisis in the state, ruling BJP is witnessing heavy political activities inside the party as Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has reached New Delhi on Monday. ....

Just ahead of the Punjab polls, self-styled jailed godman and Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is undergoing a 20-year sentence for raping his two disciples, was granted furlough for 21 days on Monday by the BJP-led Haryana government to meet his family members in Gurugram. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first hybrid rally in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh has been called off due to bad weather. He will now be addressing the rally virtually later today. PM was slated to address the rally at the Vardhman Degree College in Bijnor. ....

India's single-day Covid cases dropped below one lakh, reporting 83,876 new infections in a span of 24 hours on Monday. In the time span, 895 deaths were reported, taking the death toll to 5,02,874, said the Union Health ministry on Monday morning. ....

The proceedings of the Rajya Sabha on Monday were adjourned for an hour as a mark of respect to Lata Mangeshkar. ....

Despite the Karnataka government issuing a new circular banning hijab as well as saffron shawls in college campuses, the row continued on Monday as students in different cities of the state came wearing the shawls and hijabs, but and were turned out. ....

Incumbent Charanjit Singh Channi will be the Congress' Chief Ministerial candidate in the high-stakes Punjab Assembly elections on February 20, senior party leader Rahul Gandhi announced on Sunday. ....

The Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa on Sunday cancelled Prime Minister Narendra Modi's virtual poll rally in the state, in view of the death of iconic singer Lata Mangeshkar, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said. ....

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday issued revised guidelines following an improvement in the prevailing Covid situation and considering the short period remaining for campaigning for elections. ....