Union Minister of Textiles and Women and Child Development Smriti Irani on Friday attacked Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi while delivering the keynote address at the Bharatiya Janata Party's Kisan Sammelan in Meerut. ....

Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur, who comes from Himachal Pradesh, has an understanding of farm issues. In an exhaustive conversation with IANS, he provides the government's point of view on the contentious farm laws which have seen farmers laying siege to Delhi. ....

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge sheet against 10 Khalistani terrorists in the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) case including designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, officials said. ....

A couple working with Bengaluru police committed suicide at their residence on Friday, the police said here. ....

West Bengal legislative assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee on Friday refused to accept the resignation of Trinamool Congress lawmaker Suvendu Adhikari as it did not confirm to the provisions of the Constitution and the rules of the House. ....

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Balram Bhargava has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he tested positive for Covid-19. ....

The four accused in the alleged gang rape and torture of a young Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras in September, have been charged for gang-rape and murder by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the SC/ST court here. ....

The Allahabad High Court on Friday refused to stay the Uttar Pradesh government's ordinance to ban unlawful religious conversions, but issued notices to the state and others on a bunch of PILs that challenged the law. ....

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday. ....

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has dismissed the allegations of not holding consultations with farmers over the new Central farm laws. Goyal on Friday said these laws have been enforced only after discussing their provisions with the farmers. ....

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday dedicated the Military Literature Festival (MLF) 2020 to all the great warriors who have made supreme sacrifice in the service of the motherland. ....

The results of the elections in the Youth Congress in Madhya Pradesh have been announced in which Congress leader Vikrant Bhuria has been elected the party's state unit president. Voting was held virtually and the results were declared on Friday. ....

A group of senior BJP leaders, Arjun Singh and Kailsah Vijayavargiya, got protection against arrest from the Supreme Court in connection with various cases registered agaisnt them by the West Bengal government. ....

Senior BJP leaders from Uttar Pradesh, both with ministerial portfolios in the Yogi cabinet and those from the party, are headed towards West Bengal where elections are due next year. ....

Six farmer leaders in Sambhal district have been issued notices, asking them to furnish personal bonds of Rs 50 lakh in view of the apprehension that their actions may lead to breach of peace. ....

A day after Trinamool Congress heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari resigned just hours before Jitendra Tiwari from the party, the trend continued on Friday as another legislator from Mamata Banerjee's party from Barrackpore assembly constituency, Silbhadra Dutta, too called it quits. ....

The DMK and its allies are on a hunger strike here on Friday in support of the farmers who are agitating against the three farm laws passed by the Centre in September. ....

With 22,890 new Coronavirus infections and 338 deaths in the past 24 hours, India's overall tally stood at 99,79,447 on Friday, while the death toll reached 1,44,789, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. ....

Cold wave continued to sweep J&K and Ladakh on Friday with Jammu recording season's coldest night at 2.8 degrees Celsius and the Drass town remaining frozen at minus 28.5. ....

With 11 more cases slapped on Samajwadi Party MP Mohd Azam Khan, the tally of cases he is facing has reached 100. ....