President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday launched the Pulse Polio Programme for 2017 under which about 17 crore children of less than five years age will be immunised. ....

Continuing his frontal attack on Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's family, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said his son and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal was an "icon of corruption". ....

A person was killed and an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate was injured on Saturday when an SUV collided with a tractor-trolley near Jagraon town in Punjab, police said ....

Some are playing musical chairs, some are behaving like jumping jacks and a few are ending up as jokers as well in this circus of great election-entertainments. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India would continue moving towards digital transactions to make the country a less cash society -- an initiative following the spiking of old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. ....

At least 20 trains were delayed, two rescheduled and one cancelled on Saturday due to fog in many parts of north India, a railway official said. ....

The minimum temperature here on Saturday rose above freezing point as the authorities sounded an avalanche warning for higher reaches of the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tribute to Lala Lajpat Rai on his 151st birth anniversary. ....

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued notice to the Bihar government on the alleged murder of a class 10 girl student whose body was found in a drain near the gate of the hostel earlier this month. ....

Swaraj India on Friday dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious "Swachh Bharat Mission" a "complete failure" in Delhi, claiming that only a little over Rs 2 crore of the allotted Rs 366 crore has been spent in the city. ....

A court here has issued summons to former Rajya Sabha member Mahmood A. Madani for alleged irregularities in a Leave Travel Concession case. ....

President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday condoled the death of soldiers killed in two avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir and prayed for early recovery of the injured. ....

The Indian Navy is undertaking a large-scale war exercise off the western coast to test its combat readiness, with leading ships including aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, nuclear submarine Chakra taking part along with other vessels and aircraft, an official statement said on Friday. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday promised more water to the farmers of Punjab, saying it will come from the Indus river. ....

Dubbing the Congress as a "sinking ship" and "history", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called upon voters not to vote for the opposition party in the coming assembly elections in five states. ....

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for claiming to fight corruption, while aligning with the "corrupt" Shiromani Akali Dal regime in Punjab. ....

Even as the Aadhaar enrolment touched 111 crore on Republic Day, the total savings by the central and state exchequers by deploying it stood at Rs 36,144 crore in two years, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said here on Friday. ....

President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday accepted the resignation of Meghalaya Governor V. Shanmuganathan, who put in his papers on Thursday following allegations of "inappropriate behaviour". ....

Women Congress workers on Friday staged a protest outside the BJP office here demanding an apology from its leader Vinay Katiyar for his "sexist" remarks against Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. ....

Manipuri musicologist Laishram Birendrakumar Singh, 97, is happy that he was recently named for Padma Shri, the country's fourth highest civilian honour, and said that age has nothing to do with it. ....