It was a day to remember in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi as Anvi Singh, a Class 10 topper, became the Deputy Commissioner under a new initiative by the district administration aimed at inspiring young ...

Two local Congress workers, said to be close to the party’s Uttar Pradesh unit president Ajay Rai, were nabbed on charges of robbery, theft, and molestation, police said on Friday. The arrests were ...

The Delhi government has rolled out guidelines for tree officers to enforce certain sections of the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act (DPTA), 1994, officials said. Environment Minister Manjinder Singh ...

Political parties, cutting across affiliations and ideologies, Friday welcomed the Kashmir rail link inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hoping for a boost in trade and tourism in the valley.

The Odisha cabinet on Friday decided to implement two new schemes for the development of biotechnology and to enhance urban infrastructure, and gave its nod to a proposal to float a tender for the ...

The Karnataka government has recommended the names of Dalit activist D G Sagar, senior journalist Dinesh Amin Mattu, Congress’ communications chief Ramesh Babu and Karnataka NRI Forum deputy ...

Environmental activist Medha Patkar on Saturday appealed to the people of Odisha for protection of Rushikulya river. The government planned to construct a dam in the river Pipalapnaka under Sorada ...

China-appointed Panchen Lama, the second most important Buddhist monk in Tibet after the Dalai Lama, on Friday met President Xi Jinping here and swore his loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.

Kolkata Police arrested two persons, including a post-graduate trainee (PGT), in connection with separate incidents of rapes in the city, an officer said on Friday. The first arrest was made in ...

The 272 km long Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link Project which was started in 1997 took almost 28 years to become operational. Its first 55 km long section between Jammu-Udhampur was completed in ...

Pakistan on Friday said it was “dismayed” over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks that Islamabad was involved in the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 civilians were killed. Modi on Friday ...

A French rabbi was attacked on Friday for the second time in a week, he told Reuters, reflecting a broad rise in hate crimes ...