The arrest of Kapil Jhaveri, a small-time Bollywood actor and the director of a co-operative society, at a rave party in a North Goa beach village on Sunday has become a cause of embarrassment for the ruling political establishment in Goa. ....

India's Coronavirus tally crossed the 27-lakh mark on Tuesday with 55,079 new cases in 24 hours, while the toll climbed to 51,797 with 876 more fatalities, said the Health Ministry. ....

Six hockey players, who tested coronavirus positive earlier this month and were shifted to a hospital, are now cured and put in quarantine at the Sports Authority of India's National Centre of Excellence (NCE) in Bengaluru. ....

The district administration here from Tuesday allowed gyms and restaurants to reopen, but with a set of conditions. ....

The Telangana Assembly's Monsoon Session will start on September 7, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao announced on Monday. ....

Senior Advocate Rajeev Dhavan on Monday told the Supreme Court that his client Prashant Bhushan will file a review petition against the apex court's August 14 verdict to hold the activist-lawyer guilty of contempt of court for his tweet criticising the judiciary. ....

Heavy rains continued to lash Telangana for the fourth consecutive day on Monday while the Godavari river was flowing above the danger mark at Bhadrachalam, inundating several low-lying areas. ....

The Supreme Court Monday said life should move on even in Covid-19 times and declined to entertain a plea seeking the postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), slated in September. ....

China has deployed high altitude artillery guns in Tibet amid the ongoing border tension with India in eastern Ladakh. ....

The Tamil Nadu state government has decided to reopen retail liquor shops in Chennai from Tuesday onwards after a gap of several months. ....

Two CRPF personnel and a Special Police Officer (SPO) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police were killed after terrorists attacked a patrol party in North Kashmir's Baramulla district. ....

Maharashtra's academic and cultural capital Pune on Sunday broke ahead of Mumbai to emerge as the country's new "corona capital" with the maximum coronavirus cases. ....

India's novel coronavirus tally crossed the 26-lakh mark on Monday with 57,981 new cases in 24 hours, while the death toll climbed to 50,921 with 941 more deaths, said the Health Ministry. ....

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has transferred 12 IPS officers in an apparent attempt to control the law and order situation in the state. ....

As a fallout of the Rajasthan turmoil, Congress General Secretary in-charge of the state Avinash Pande has been replaced by former Union minister Ajay Maken who was special observer for the state during the crisis. ....

In what appears to be a case of Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad calling former Congress President Rahul Gandhi a "loser", the war of words between the Congress and the BJP escalated on Sunday over an article alleging that social media giant Facebook favoured the BJP. ....

After four months the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine was reopened for devotees on Sunday, officials said. ....

Former President Pranab Mukherjee's medical condition remains unchanged and his vital parameters are stable, the Army Research and Referral Hospital here said in a statement. ....

Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi raised the intolerance bogey on the occasion of India's 74th Independence Day on Saturday, saying there is no freedom to write, question or disagree, while accusing the Modi government of being undemocratic. ....

Speaking on the occasion of Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red Fort here, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made 10 major announcements on Saturday. He announced the launch of the National Digital Health Mission scheme, which gives health cards to every Indian, with immediate effect. ....