After a gap of four years, the US State Department is to get an Assistant Secretary of State for the South Asia region if President Joe Biden's nomination of Donald Lu goes through the Senate. ...
In a bid to reduce the number of complaints about crematorium staff charging unduly, Bengaluru civic body on Friday evening issued a circular announcing appointment of 24 nodal officers for 12 crematoriums that are functional across the city....
Moving ahead in its probe into the allegations of misuse of office and corruption, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday said that it has registered a case against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and several others. The probe agency is carrying out searches at several locations here....
At least two people have died after an avalanche hit Uttarakhand's Chamoli Garhwal district near India-China border at around 4 p.m. on Friday, the Indian Army said....
Finally the RSS/BJP combine in Kerala has come out with their own assessment of what's in store for the BJP-led NDA in Kerala when votes will be counted on May 2. ...
The National Investigation Agency on Friday arrested Mumbai Police Crime Branch inspector Sunil Mane in connection with the twin cases of a SUV planted near the home of industrialist Mukesh Ambani and Thane businessman Mansukh Hiran's murder, official sources said. ...
Emergence of particularly infectious variants, a rise in unrestricted social interactions, and low vaccine coverage could be an unfortunate confluence of factors behind the unprecedented surge of coronavirus cases seen in India, according to a report....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to follow the government protocol when the latter's office did a live telecast of the internal meeting on tackling Covid-19 on Friday between the Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers of different states. Kejriwal later apologized for his act after Modi express...
As part of containing the second wave of Covid-19 ,the Union Territory of Puducherry has banned the sale of all liquor including arrack, toddy and Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) in bars and toddy shops from 2 p.m. onwards from April 26 to 30....
Both the traditional rivals in Kerala's political rubric, the ruling Left and the Congress-led Opposition, on Friday launched attacks on the vaccine distribution policy of the Narendra Modi government, terming it "flawed"....
