A total of 117 Directly Appointed Gazetted Officers (DAGOs) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) passed out from the CRPF Academy in Kadarpur on Thursday, officials said. ....

Rich tributes were paid to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao on his death anniversary on Thursday. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday once again appealed to farmers to adopt natural farming and also called for strengthening the dairy sector. ....

The Congress on Thursday alleged a scam in the Ayodhya land deals and demanded that the Supreme Court order a judicial inquiry to probe the acquiring and selling of lands for the Ram Mandir Trust. ....

At least two people were feared killed and several injured on Thursday in a blast at the district court complex in Punjab's Ludhiana city. ....

After the Congress Campaign committee chief in Uttarakhand Harish Rawat targetted leaders for not giving him a free hand in the party affairs, the Congress is now trying to resolve issues amicably. Sources said that the state leaders have been called to Delhi on Thursday and possibly a meeting would be held at Rahul Gandhi's residence in a day or two in which Rawat will also be present. ....

India registered 7,495 fresh Covid-19 cases and 434 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Thursday morning. ....

Taking suo motu cognizance, the government on Wednesday ordered a probe into allegations of hacking of Instagram accounts of Priyanka Gandhi and Robert Vadra's children. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Thursday to lay the foundation stone of Banas Dairy Kashi Sankul at Karkhiyaon. ....

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had provided five-star facilities to Pinky Irani while she was in their custody in connection with 200 crore Prevention of Money Laundering case involving Sukesh Chandrashekhar, as per documents accessed by IANS. ....

Six international passengers who have tested positive for Covid-19 have been sent to home isolation in a designated hospital in Bengaluru, Health department sources said on Wednesday. ....

A 24-year-old man, Kaleem Ali, allegedly slit the throat of his wife Shama after she insisted on visiting her parents' house in Telipura locality. ....

India registered 6,317 fresh Covid cases and 318 deaths in the last 24 hours, and the Omicron tally has reached 213, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday. ....

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Bengaluru on Wednesday morning, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) reported on Twitter. Normal life was not affected by the quake. ....

Joining the race for Rath Yatras in Uttar Pradesh, the Aam Aadmi Party will be taking out five rath yatras in January in an effort to reach out to people with its agenda for the state. ....

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has promised a caste census to give people their rights in accordance with their share in the population. ....

There is no evidence to suggest that existing Covid vaccines do not work on the Omicron variant, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday. ....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the Narendra Modi-led government has created a strong infrastructure to deal with cyber crimes in the last seven years and now the system is fully integrated up to the police post level. ....

The Karnataka government on Tuesday tabled the controversial Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021 popularly known as Anti-Conversion bill in the assembly in Suvarna Vidhan Soudha at Belagavi. The discussion on the proposed bill will take place on Wednesday. ....

Panchayat elections in Madhya Pradesh will have mandatory reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC), said Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday. ....