Samajwadi Party National General Secretary Ashok Pradhan on Friday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) along with a number of his supporters at the BJP central office here. ....

Lt. General Praveen Bakshi, who went on month-long leave in December after he was superseded in the selection of the Army chief's post by General Bipin Rawat, will be joining back the service early next week, sources said on Friday. ....

The Supreme Court on Friday counselled a petitioner organisation to sit on dharna in support of its demand for higher compensation for the kin of all those committing suicide, similar to Rs 1-crore compensation given to the family of an OROP agitation 'martyr'. ....

The Congress on Friday slammed the Modi government for taking away the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry from the purview of Information Commissioner M. Sridhar Acharyulu. ....

State-run general insurer National Insurance Company Ltd has collected Rs 800-900 crore as premium under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), a top official said on Friday. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday came under intense criticism from the opposition over his picture "replacing" Mahatma Gandhi on the 2017 calendar and diary of the Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC). ....

Urging soldiers not to raise their grievances directly via social media, Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Friday said they can instead use a new grievance redressal system that will keep their identity secret. ....

The BJP government on Friday sought to downplay a controversy over Prime Minister Narendra Modi "replacing" Mahatma Gandhi on the 2017 calendar and diary of the Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC), saying that the ‘Father of the Nation' is "irreplaceable". ....

The CBI on Friday filed the final report on its further probe in the coal block allocation against former Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal and others. ....

The Supreme Court on Friday said there was nothing in the law that could bar the government from advancing the date for the presentation of the annual budget for the year 2017-18. ....

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay was admitted to a jail hospital in Odisha following a court order, said an official on Friday. ....

A week on, Shimla struggles to cope with record snowfall ....

Over a dozen shops, two banks and a post office were gutted in a massive fire that broke out here in the Kashmir Valley on Friday. ....

India Inc. on Thursday welcomed the appointment of Natarajan Chandrasekaran as the new Executive Chairman of Tata Sons. ....

Invoking Swami Vivekananda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged the youth to guide people to increase cashless transactions. ....

After the BSF and CRPF troopers, now the video of the Indian Army's Lance Naik Yagya Pratap has surfaced, in which he has raised his voice against the service conditions, alleging the soldiers are being exploited by their officers. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday wrote to Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, condemning the terror attacks in Kabul and Kandhar. ....

Three persons have been detained here on Thursday with scrapped currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 worth Rs 31.65 lakh, the city police said. ....

Narnaul in Haryana was the coldest place in the region with the minimum temperature slipping below the freezing point on Thursday. ....

State Bank of India (SBI) can shut down its branches till the supply of cash gets normalised and staff are not put to risk to face the ire of banking public, a top union leader said. ....