Three persons were killed and 21 others seriously injured when a vehicle they were returning in after attending a Congress rally overturned in Purnia district, police said on Friday. ....

Around 4.39 crore ineligible/bogus ration cards have been weeded out across the country from 2013 to 2020 by state/UT governments, the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said on Friday. ....

Narol police has arrested three persons on charges of unauthorised construction and illegal storage of hazardous substances to endanger human lives in connection with the Wednesday's fire and blasts in a cotton mill premises in Ahmedabad, police said on Friday. ....

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's son Raninder Singh on Friday for the second time in less than a fortnight did not appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at its zonal office in Jalandhar in connection with an alleged forex contraventions case. ....

The rescue operations going on for the last 48 hours entered the final stage on Friday to save four-year-old Prahlad, who accidentally fell into a 200-feet deep borewell in a Madhya Pradesh village. ....

The Lucknow administration has, once again, put up posters with photographs of activists who had campaigned against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) earlier this year. ....

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that an offence under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is not made out on the fact that the complainant is a member of SC or ST. ....

The Punjab government on Thursday announced to reopen universities and colleges located outside the containment zones from November 16. ....

With the campaigning for the third and last phase of Bihar Assembly elections concluding on Thursday, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made a big announcement saying it was his last election. ....

The US presidential election also echoed in the Bihar poll campaign on Thursday as BJP chief J.P. Nadda said that people of USA had cornered President Donald Trump on the issue of coronavirus as he lags behind in the poll forecasts. ....

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan on Thursday said he would be contesting in the 2021 assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and also seeking the support of fellow actor Rajinikanth. ....

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Thursday requested his counterparts in Rajasthan and Odisha to reconsider their governments' decision to ban the sale and bursting of crackers during Diwali. ....

On November 7, elections will be held on 78 seats for the third and final phase of assembly elections in Bihar. Although the election in this phase is important for every political party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Janata Dal United face the challenge of retaining their old seats. For the BJP, the challenge is to repeat the success of the 2010 elections. ....

Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan on Thursday said Nitish Kumar is "greedy", "would befriend anyone to remain in power" and thus the "most corrupt Chief Minister" Bihar has ever seen. ....

In a clear message to China, just ahead of talks to resolve border issue, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday that India is facing challenges on its borders and will defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity. ....

Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during a poll campaign in Araria has come out with spin-off of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) by dubbing it Modi Voting Machine (MVM). ....

A Raigad Magistrate has remanded Republic TV Managing Director and Editor in Chief Arnab Goswami to 14 days' judicial custody after a marathon five-hour hearing here late on Wednesday night. ....

With just a day left for campaigning in the third phase of the Bihar assembly elections, both the large political alliances and smaller parties have stepped on the accelerator. ....

Rejecting outright the allegations of 'anti-nationalism' against Punjab's farmers, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday led a protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar to get "justice for the poor farmers". He said he was not in Delhi to confront the Centre but to fight for the farmers rights, whose livelihood was at stake due to the new Central farm laws. ....

Prime Minister Narendra modi has condoled the casualties in the Gujarat cotton mill blast incident in which at least 9 people died. ....