Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will attend 30 public meetings in 15 days beginning from April 1 to 15 for the first phase of polling in the state.
The country's key opposition Congress party received a blow ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha election with the Income Tax department serving notice of over Rs 1,800 crore to it for alleged discrepancies in tax returns for previous years.
India on Thursday said it is in close touch with Indians onboard and the local authorities following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Maryland after the Singapore-flagged container ship ‘Dali’ collided with one of the pillars this week.
External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on Friday held bilateral talks here and discussed the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and its wider ramifications.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal on Friday launched a Whatsapp campaign ‘Kejriwal ko Aashirwad’, to seek support for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor who is under ED’s custody in an excise policy case.
The second edition of India-Mozambique-Tanzania Trilateral Exercise concluded at Nacala, Mozambique on Mar 28.
Meerut/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kickstart the Lok Sabha election campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the third consecutive time from Meerut with a rally on March 31.
Mandi/IBNS: Bollywood top actress Kangana Ranaut on Friday kick-started her Lok Sabha poll campaign, days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) picked her as a candidate from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi.
Srinagar/UNI: Police have arrested two absconders, including a woman, who were evading their arrest for decades in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Lucknow/UNI: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party (SP) president on Friday demanded a high-level probe into the death of mafia-turned-politician and former MLA Mukhtar Ansari.
At least ten passengers were killed when a passenger taxi they were travelling in skidded off and plunged into a deep gorge on Friday morning in the Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir.
At least 45 passengers, who were heading towards an Easter conference, died after the bus in which they were travelling plunged off a cliff in South Africa’s Limpopo province on Thursday.
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Thursday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his comment on the Congress and said that the PM has mastered the art of "manipulating: democracy and hurting" the Constitution.
Banda (UP)/IBNS/UNI: Mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died of cardiac arrest in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. He was 63.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday arrested the key conspirator in the Rameshwaram cafe blast case in Bengaluru following massive raids across multiple locations in three states.
Mumbai/IBNS: Bollywood actor Govinda, a mass entertainer of the 1990s and known for his impeccable comic timing, Thursday made a comeback to politics after a 14-year hiatus joining the ruling Shiv Sena in Mumbai.
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday launched a strong attack on the Congress party after 600 lawyers and some bar associations across the country wrote to the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, expressing concerns over attempts to undermine the judiciary's integrity using political and professional pressure.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Ministry of External Affairs Thursday said that recent remarks by the US State Department on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest are "unwarranted," and any such external imputation on India's electoral and legal processes is "completely unacceptable".
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: A minor girl was raped and murdered by a man in Delhi's Bawana area, media reports said.
New Delhi: Congress on Thursday alleged that atrocities on women have increased under the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has failed to stop crime against women.
New Delhi: Aam Admi Party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently jailed on corruption charges in an alleged liquor policy scam, has been remanded to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for four more days till April 1, media reports said.
Itanagar: Senior BJP leader and Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu, and four other candidates of the saffron party are poised to be declared elected unopposed as none of their opponents filed nominations against them in the five Legislative Assembly Constituencies till Wednesday (March 27), the last date of filing nominations for the April 19 polls.
New Delhi: After being denied a ticket from Pilibhit for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Thursday wrote an emotional letter to the people of his constituency and shared the memories of his childhood.
New Delhi: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), a world-class aerospace and defence company, has opened Aerospace Services India (ASI), its Indian subsidiary, in the national capital.
New Delhi: The Department of Defence Production under the Ministry of Defence has issued a notification for re-organisation of the Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA), which is aimed at speeding up quality assurance processes and trials and reducing layers of decision-making.
New Delhi: Over 600 lawyers in India, including senior advocates Harish Salve and Pinky Anand, have expressed concerns regarding efforts by a "special interest group" to exert influence on the judiciary, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking the removal of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is in the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s custody in connection with the liquor scam case, from the Chief Minister's post.
New Delhi/UNI: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) in Tirap, Changlang and Longding districts of Arunachal Pradesh for another period of six months declaring them as ‘disturbed area’ with effect from April 1.
New Delhi/UNI: United States reiterated its call for fair, transparent, and timely legal processes a day after India summoned a US diplomat and objected to remarks on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest.
New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra is likely to skip the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s third summons in connection with the foreign exchange violation case, media reports said.
