
Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi will host a meeting of like-minded parties next week, with all opposition leaders, who jointly took on to the government in the just-concluded Monsoon session, to be invited, sources said on Thursday....

After a gap of more than three months, the Jagannath temple in Puri of Odisha reopened for family members of the servitors on Thursday. For the general public, the temple will reopen from August 23, officials said...

The Centre on Thursday granted one year extension to Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, who was set to retire this month....

As many as 151 police personnel, including 28 women officers, have been awarded the Union Home Minister's 'Medal for Excellence in Investigation' for the year 2021. ...

Despite a number of blockbusters lined up for Onam release, with Covid still raging in Kerala and the daily number of new cases touching as high as 52 per cent of the total daily cases reported nationally, the Pinarayi Vijayan government has decided not to open the movie halls anytime soon. ...

The Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad will house a Martyr's Memorial (Shaheed Smarak) on the eastern bank. The Ahmedabad Cantonment Board has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for this and work will be initiated shortly....

The Taliban have toppled the 217th Pamir Army corps situated in the airport of Afghanistan's Kunduz province for the first time in the past two decades....

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani replaced the countrys army chief and flew to the besieged northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, trying to organise its defenses and halt the Talibans rapid offensive, a media report said....
As the Taliban continue its assaults across Afghanistan, the fighters have toppled Ghazni province and the provincial Governor along with the head of national police was allowed to come to Kabul....

Miscreants have burned down two luxury vehicles belonging to 3-time BJP MLA Satish Reddy, parked inside the compound of his residence in Bengaluru, Karnataka in the wee hours on Thursday....