After an uproar over tweets by international celebrities in support of protest by Indian farmers, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday took a swipe at the BJP-led NDA government and questioned why no questions were raised when some "nationalists" proclaimed 'Abki baar, Trump ki sarkar" in the US. ....

Former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot plans to connect with the state's farmers through 'Kisan Sammelans' in the wake of their agitation against the three new central farm laws, with the first such event organised in Dausa on Friday. ....

Continuing its streak of low numbers of single-day coronavirus cases, India reported 12,408 new infections in the last 24 hours, increasing the overall tally to 1,08,02,591, health officials said on Friday. ....

In a shocking incident, an assistant teacher allegedly thrashed the principal of a government inter-college for not being allowed to put his signature first on a register since that determines the seniority level. ....

Pfizer has decided to withdraw its application for Emergency Use Authorisation of its Covid-19 vaccine in India. ....

For the second consecutive day on Friday the minimum temperature remained above the freezing point in Srinagar city as the weather office forecast dry weather for the next seven days. ....

Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to have vaccinated over 5.5 lakh people against Covid-19. ....

Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) chief Shivpal Yadav has said that his party is ready to forge an alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) for the upcoming Assembly elections to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party. ....

The latest serosurvey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has revealed that nearly three times more Indians may have been exposed to coronavirus as compared to the country's current Covid-19 tally. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may speak in the Rajya Sabha on Monday during the motion of thanks to the President's address, according to sources. ....

Considering the upcoming Assembly elections and multiple board exams in West Bengal, the 45th International Kolkata Book Fair will be held in the month of July this year at the Central Park Mela Ground in Salt Lake. ....

Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana F. Patole resigned from his post here on Thursday evening. He submitted his resignation to Deputy Speaker Narhari S. Zhirwal, after a tenure of nearly 14 months in the august post. ....

The more than two-month-long farmers' agitation against the three farm laws continues on Delhi's borders. In such a scenario, Bharatiya Kisan Union national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait has evolved a formula to keep the movement going: Get one tractor and 15 people for 10 days from every village. This will enable the maximum number of farmers to participate in the movement and also return to the village and engage in farming. ....

The Congress lawmakers on Thursday moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha over the newly enacted Central farm laws. ....

It was Maharaja vs Raja in Rajya Sabha on Thursday when the erstwhile Maharaja of Gwalior and now BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia and Congress MP Digvijaya Singh, former Raja of Raghogarh, launched no-holds-barred attacks on each other's parties. ....

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday rejected the schedule proposed by the Uttar Pradesh's State Election Commission (SEC) for holding panchayat elections in the state. ....

India is ready to supply various types of weapon systems to Indian Ocean Region countries, Defence Minster Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, while stressing that the countries need to ensure peace in the region through "maritime cooperation". ....

Defending the three new agricultural laws, BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday said that the government is not against the farmers but rather committed to their welfare. ....

A fresh Western Disturbance over Afghanistan and North Pakistan has created an untimely monsoon weekend in parts of North, Eastern and Central India over the weekend, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted on Thursday. ....

The Congress high command in Rajasthan has failed to meet its January 31 deadline for announcement of political appointments and has now taken a U-turn, leaving scores of party workers demotivated across the state. ....