The Odisha government on Tuesday approved free textbooks for around 28.7 lakh students of state-run schools, along with a Rs 500-crore programme to improve urban drainage and tackle flooding. The ...

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar on Tuesday won all 21 seats in the election to the Someshwar Cooperative Sugar Factory in Pune district, ...

Several people were feared drowned after a boat capsized in the Ganga river in Bihar’s Vaishali district on Tuesday evening, officials said. According to sources, most of those on the ill-fated boat ...

C Sudharsan Reddy on Tuesday directed district election officials to organise special camps on October 15 and 16 at every polling station for enrolment of left-out and first-time voters, and to ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay on Tuesday met his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu here and requested the release of additional drinking water for Chennai through the Telugu ...

Opposition parties in Punjab on Tuesday mounted an attack on the AAP government over the murder of anti-drug activist Parminder Singh Jhota in Mansa, alleging “jungle raj” and the incident exposed the ...

Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Tuesday directed officers to draw up a comprehensive, coordinated strategy to make Haryana drug-free, as he outlined seven key pledges to protect the youth from ...

Dr B R Ambedkar University on Tuesday alleged that a group of protesting students damaged university property and engaged in physical altercations with security personnel on its Kashmere Gate campus.

Probe has intensified into the suspected murder of a 27-year-old cafe owner who died after falling from the fourth floor of an apartment here, with a hunt on for the live-in partner of the businessman ...

Gold and silver jewellery items belonging to half a dozen women were allegedly stolen during the Hindu Ekta Yatra organised by Bageshwar Dham, a Hindu organisation, police said on Tuesday. The ...

Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Tuesday stressed the urgent need to protect Ladakh’s fragile glaciers from the impacts of global warming as he chaired the first meeting of the ...

The BJP in Keralam on Tuesday staged a sit-in protest outside the state assembly against the alleged illegal preventive detention of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation councillor R Sugathan, who was ...