Five young men from Arunachal Pradesh, who went missing on September 2 and were later found to be in Chinese territory, were handed over to India by the People's Liberation Army on Saturday amid the ongoing stand-off between the two sides at the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh area. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the government had completed works worth Rs 23,000 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) and that the number of days to build a house under the PM Awas Yojana (Gramin) had gone sown from 125 days to between 45 and 60 days. ....

India on Saturday once again recorded an unprecedented spike in a single day as 97,570 fresh Covid cases were recorded taking the total tally to 46,59,984, the Union Health Ministry data revealed. ....

The Supreme Court asked the Centre on Friday if it could issue an ordinance allocating funds collected under the welfare schemes for construction workers to be used for other workers during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which has led to the return to many migrant workers to their native states. ....

In wake of the August 24 CWC meet held after a section of Congress leaders demanded party reforms, Congress' interim President Sonia Gandhi has set up a special six-member panel to assist her and accommodated one of the "dissenters" in it, while reconstituting the Working Committee - the party's highest decision-making body. ....

Maharashtra crossed the 1 million-case mark by adding a staggering 24,886 new Covid-19 cases -- the highest till date -- besides recording the second highest single-day death toll of 442, health officials said here on Friday. ....

Popular Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh passed away on Friday after a cardiac arrest at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences here on Friday evening. The hospital records have confirmed 6.30 p.m. as the time of his death. ....

The Congress has announced the names of 15 candidates for the bypolls to the 27 vacant Madhya Pradesh Assembly seats. ....

China has set up a military base near Finger 5, in the north bank of Pangong Lake, completely cutting off the Indian Army. ....

Amid the India-China faceoff, Congress former President Rahul Gandhi for the first time attended the meeting of the Standing Committee on Defence on Friday. ....

Former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD President Lalu Prasad may get bail in October, his lawyer claimed on Friday after a hearing in the Jharkhand High Court. ....

The Supreme Court on Friday gave the green signal to National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru, to conduct separate exam -- NLAT-2020 -- scheduled on Saturday, but asked it not to announce the results till the pendency of the plea. ....

Two days after Dilip Ghosh said "Corona is over", the Mamata Banerjee-led ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday came down heavily on the West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party president for his "horrifying" statement amid rising cases of the pandemic as India put up an unprecedented number of fresh cases and deaths in the past 24 hours. ....

Amid the political ups and downs in Bihar ahead of the Assembly elections, Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday said that he agrees with every decision of his son and Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan. ....

With the post of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chair set to witness a contest between two leaders from Bihar on September 14, RJD leader Manoj Jha on Friday filed his nomination papers for the electoral battle. ....

The Health Ministry on Friday said that few states are trying to curb the free inter-state movement of oxygen supplies by exercising provisions under various acts and also mandating the manufacturers and suppliers located in the state to restrict their oxygen supplies to only the hospitals of the state. ....

Emphasising on the need to impart learning in a language that a student understands, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked students to engage in critical thinking and study new things. ....

The joint statement and 5-point consensus reached by both Chinese and Indian foreign ministers in Moscow marked a substantial step in cooling down the current border situation, exceeding the expectations of most international observers, Chinese mouthpiece Global Times reported. ....

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale occurred on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir with its epicentre at the India-Pakistan border region, the Met said. ....

Pakistan used small arms and mortars to target the Indian positions on the Line of Control (LoC) on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district. ....