The Supreme Court on Tuesday wanted to know whether the smoke produced from stubble burning could kill the novel Coronavirus as cases in India inched closer to 67 lakh while 1,03,569 lost the battle against the pandemic. ....

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said it was Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's choice if he sees an "international conspiracy" in the Hathras incident but he personally sees it as a major tragedy. ....

A special court for SC/ST cases sentenced four accused in the Thanagaazi gang rape case to life imprisonment on Tuesday while the fifth accused, who made the rape video viral, was awarded 5 years rigorous imprisonment. ....

Rejecting the suggestion that the Central government was able to take unilateral decisions because of a weak opposition, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said, "Give me free Press and other key institutions and this (Narendra Modi) government will not last long". ....

The Department of Forensic Medicine at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of Aligarh Muslim University, has certified that there is no evidence of rape in the case of the 19-year-old Dalit victim in the Hathras case. ....

The Uttar Pradesh government has told the Supreme Court that the Hathras gang rape-murder victim was cremated in the night due to intelligence inputs that lakhs of people from the communities of both the woman and the accused along with political workers would assemble at her village, which could lead to a major law and order problem. ....

Two strikingly similar incidents took place at a distance of about 540 kilometres and within a matter of 24 hours last week. ....

India on Tuesday reported 61,267 fresh infections of the novel Coronavirus, taking the case tally to 66,85,082, health officials said. This is the lowest daily spike since August. ....

A junior commissioned officer (JCO) of the Indian army was killed on Monday in Pakistan's ceasefire violation along the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K's Rajouri district. ....

It has been exactly seven days since the 19-year-old Dalit girl succumbed to alleged assault injuries in a Delhi hospital and the media has been pursuing the story with a madness that is rarely seen. ....

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy arrived in New Delhi on Monday evening. ....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a PIL seeking a CBI probe or a SIT investigation under a sitting or former Supreme Court or a High Court judge in the gruesome gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district. ....

The states are now free to decide on reopening of schools after October 15 given the current Covid-19 pandemic. In view of this, the Ministry of Education has prepared Standard Operating Procedures for the reopening of schools. ....

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that the Chinese had dared to enter India and kill our soldiers because the Narendra Modi government had weakened the nation with its "anti-national policies and actions", of which the farm laws were the latest example. ....

A day after announcing that the LJP will go solo in the Bihar polls, the party's chief Chirag Paswan has upped the ante with an open letter to fellow Biharis where he warned that voting for JD-U candidates will only force an exodus of their children from the state. ....

A 30-year-old hospital worker was killed and two others injured at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences' Covid centre here when an incomplete parapet wall collapsed and fell on persons on the ground. ....

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to commit that the Congress government would take complete responsibility of the farmers by acceding to the demand of former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu to start procurement of foodgrains on the state's behalf as per the minimum support price (MSP). In a statement here, senior party leader Maheshinder Singh Grewal said that it was widely believed that Sidhu was the mascot of Rahul Gandhi in Punjab. "The Gandhi family even deputed Congress general secretary Harish R ....

YSRCP leader and former legislator Dronamraju Srinivas Rao succumbed to a lung infection after recovering from Covid-19. ....

With its top party leaders Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav facing murder charges, the RJD on Monday accused Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi of engaging in a criminal conspiracy against Tejashwi Yadav. ....

Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP from Berhampore in Murshidabad district, on Monday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his prolonged silence on the alleged gang-rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit girl in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh. ....