Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday said the dedication of the Atal Tunnel, beneath the majestic Rohtang Pass, has ushered a new era of development and given a new identity to the region. ....

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy's father-in-law E.C. Gangi Reddy passed away on Saturday. ....

During a visit to Varanasi on Saturday, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Zubin Irani described the incident in Hathras as painful. "Chief Minister Yogi will do justice in this matter. But Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka going to Hathras is just playing politics." ....

After a decade of sheer hard work by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the strategic Atal Tunnel, one of the world's most challenging and a marvel of engineering motorways, in the Himalayas that will also bring the infantry combat vehicles closer to the Line of Actual Control. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the newly inaugurated Atal Tunnel beneath the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district would help give a fresh boost to India's border infrastructure. ....

Massive traffic jams were witnessed on the Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) flyway on Saturday afternoon as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's cavalcade moved on the 9.2 km stretch to meet the kin of the 19-year-old Hathras girl who died four days ago following alleged gang-rape by 'upper-caste men'. ....

The Covid-19 toll in Karnataka crossed 9,000-mark, with 125 patients succumbing to the infection till Thursday night, taking the number of deaths in the southern state to 9,119 till date. ....

The Congress will hold a 'satyagraha' across the country on October 5 to protest the alleged high-handedness shown by Uttar Pradesh's Yogi Adityanath government towards top Congress leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi as they were proceeding on Thursday to Hathras to meet the family of the gang-rape and murder victim. ....

A "minor" explosion was reported at a 370 MW gas power plant of the state-run Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd in Bengaluru early on Friday, leaving 15 persons injured, including two critically, an official said. ....

In a major decision, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday suspended Superintendent of Police, Hathras, Vikrant Veer and four other local policemen for alleged dereliction of duty in the events that led to the death of a 19-year-old woman and then her hasty cremation in the dead of the night in absence of her family members. ....

Amid the uproar over the Hathras and Balrampur gang rape cases, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that those who even think of besmirching the honour and respect of women in the state would face total destruction. ....

While the ruling party is engaged in turning the battle for Bihar Assembly elections 2020 as 15 years versus 15 years (15 years of NDA compared to 15 years of the RJD government), the main opposition party Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is targeting the Nitish government on the issues of corruption and law and order. ....

The Supreme Court said the experiences gained from the Emergency era are sobering lessons, which should warn against endowing a statute, susceptible of grave misuse. ....

Hundreds of Kisan Congress workers on Friday protested outside BJP President JP Nadda's residence here over the alleged misbehaviour of Uttar Pradesh Police with Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra en route to Hathras to meet a gang-rape victim's family. ....

If Mahatma Gandhi were alive today, he would have launched an agitation against the NDA government at the Centre that was much bigger than the one he led against the British, former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro said on Friday. ....

Samajwadi Party (SP) workers on Friday faced a lathicharge when they were marching towards the Gandhi statue here to observe a silent 'satyagraha' in protest against the alleged deterioration in law and order, rising crime against women, unemployment and the recent farm and labour laws. ....

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday said it has filed a charge sheet against 33 people in connection with the murder of BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi in Chhattisgarh last year. ....

The Yogi Adityanath government has finally allowed Durga Puja celebrations with established safety protocols under the pandemic. ....

With a spike of 81,214 coronavirus cases and 1,095 deaths in 24 hours, India's tally on Friday mounted to 63,94,069 cases. ....

Seema Kushwaha, lawyer of the 2012 Delhi rape victim, known as Nirbhaya, will now fight the case of the Hathras victim. ....