Breaking all the records of this year, Maharashtra on Wednesday reported the highest single-day spike of Covid-19 cases as it recorded 23,179 cases in the last 24 hours. ....

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday released the election manifesto of Trinamool Congress ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls in the state to be held in eight phases from March 27 to April 29. ....

A special MCOCA court in Mumbai has convicted extradited gangster Rajendra Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan and six others of attempting to murder a real estate developer and sentenced them to 10 years rigorous imprisonment, an official said on Wednesday. ....

Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said that Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had called him in 2018, requesting him to reinstate Sachin Vaze in the police. ....

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat has said that wearing of ripped jeans is leading to societal breakdown. Speaking at a workshop on substance abuse on Tuesday, the BJP leader described this as a case of "bad example" being set for the children by their parents. He went on to claim that such behaviour was also leading to substance abuse or consumption of drugs. ....

A three day religious meet in Uttar Pradesh's Guru Dham Mandir near Pratapgarh has turned into a Covid hotspot with several devotees coming to attend the religious meet testing positive for the deadly virus risking an outbreak like 'Tablighi Jamat' in New Delhi last year. ....

In a huge fallout of the mystery SUV case, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday shunted out Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh and replaced him with current Director-General of Police Hemant Nagrale, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh announced. ....

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought reply from Centre and states, on a plea alleging cancellation of nearly four crore ration cards, in the absence of linkages with the Aadhaar card. ....

Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar in a statement in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday said that during the pandemic India supplied medicines to 150 countries including PPE kits to many nations and the country has become the pharmacy of the world. ....

Lt. General B.S. Raju has handed over the command of the strategic Kashmir-based 15 Corps to Lt. General D.P. Pandey, the army said in a statement on Wednesday. ....

A senior Indian Air Force (IAF) officer lost his life after his fighter jet MiG-21 Bison met with a accident on Wednesday. To ascertain the cause of accident, a court of inquiry has been set up. ....

Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed the Rajya Sabha that for the central vista project no iconic and historical buildings will be demolished and in the first phase of the project new parliament will be ready by 2022. ....

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced the names of its candidates for the remaining seats of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam, where Assembly polls will be held on April 6. ....

Mumbai' Municipal Commissioner I. S. Chahal was conferred the 'Lokmat Maharashtrian of the Year 2021 Award' for his meritorious efforts to control the spread of the Covid-19 scourge in the city. ....

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is likely to take over the probe of the death of Mumbai-based businessman Mansukh Hiren, whose dead body was found in a creek in Thane here, sources said. ....

Despite surge in the number of Covid-19 cases in the state, the Yogi Adityanath government has ruled out any night curfew and lockdown in any part of the state. ....

Ram Swaroop Sharma, the BJP MP from Himachal's Mandi was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his Delhi residence under mysterious circumstances, police said on Wednesday. ....

Former Union Minister and BJP leader Dilip Gandhi, who had tested positive for Covid-19, passed away at a private hospital in Delhi on Wednesday during treatment. He was 70. ....

The BJP has released names of candidates for the nine assembly constituencies in Puducherry. ....

Elections are not just about voting, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said, noting that even Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi used to have elections, ....