In the last 24 hours, India registered 25,920 new Covid-19 cases, marking a 16 per cent decline, said the Union Health Ministry on Friday. ....

Ahead of the assembly polls in Punjab and the remaining phase of Uttar Pradesh polls, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has issued a video statement in which he said that he was called 'Maun Mohan' then but now the country remembers the good work done by him. He appealed to the voters of Punjab, UP and Manipur to vote for the Congress. ....

Samajwadi patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, on Thursday, campaigned for Akhilesh Yadav in Karhal in Mainpuri and asked people to ensure a big margin of victory for Akhilesh. ....

Congress leader Sachin Pilot has demanded that the students taking the retest of the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET) exam should not be charged again. ....

After having served the Congress party for 37 years, former Gujarat Congress spokesperson and senior leader Jayrajsinh Parmar on Thursday quit the party. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually dedicate two additional railway lines connecting Thane and Diva to the nation on February 18. ....

Russia's claim that it is moving troops away from the border with Ukraine is "false", a senior US official said, adding that 7,000 extra troops have arrived in recent days. ....

A light intensity earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale occurred in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, but no casualty or damage to property was reported from anywhere so far. ....

The principal bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court has ordered to restrain the state Public Service Commission (PSC) from giving a 27 per cent reservation quota to the Other Backward Class (OBC) in the civil services exams. ....

Around 20 medical students from Bareilly and Rampur district are stuck in Ukraine, following border tension with Russia. They want the government of India to evacuate them, according to family members. ....

The Congress in Karnataka is all set to corner the state government inside and outside the Assembly on the statement of Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development K.S. Eshwarappa regarding the hoisting of a saffron flag on the Red Fort. ....

While addressing a rally in Punjab’s Pathankot ahead of the February 20 Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party, alleging that they are “partners in crime”. ....

With a declared net worth of Rs 202 crore, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal is the richest candidate in the assembly elections in Punjab, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Punjab Election Watch said on Wednesday. ....

Jailed mafia don and MLA, Mukhtar Ansari, has been granted bail after spending almost 17 years in jail. ....

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has moved an application before the concerned court seeking permission to question Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar in money laundering case. ....

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Wednesday, reached the Ravidas temple at Seer Govardhan where they offered prayers. ....

Campaigning for his party just days before the Assembly polls in the Sikh-dominated Punjab, the birthplace of the year-long mass agitation against three now repealed market-friendly farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is believed to have taken religious consideration into account while deciding to woo the urban Hindu voters to strengthen the BJP's hold. ....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday congratulated the Delhi Police for fair investigation into the Delhi riots. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday offered prayers at Shri Guru Ravidas Vishram Dham Mandir in Karol Bagh on the occasion of Ravidas Jayanti. ....

Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu, who was arrested in connection with the violence at Red Fort during farmers' tractor rally on Republic Day 2021, died in a road crash near the spot near the Delhi border where the farmers held a year-long protest against the three controversial farm laws. ....