
After the months-long lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 35-year-old Manjur Alam was expecting customers at his plant nursery, however, the farmers' protest at Singhu border has prolonged his agony. Alam, a resident of South 24 Parganas in West Bengal, told IANS he was expecting...

Hilal Akbar Lone, son of senior National Conference (NC) leader and Lok Sabha member, Muhammad Akbar Lone, has been booked on Tuesday for delivering a hate speech in J&K's Bandipora district. Police sources said Hilal Akbar Lone was released yesterday from preventive ...

The BJP announced on Tuesday that it will field Rambhai Mokariya and Dineshbhai Prajapati for two vacant Rajya Sabha seats from Gujarat, voting for which will be held on March 1. The two seats fell vacant due to the death of Congress member Ahmed Patel and ...

Expressing grief over the deadly road accident in Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi district involving a bus that fell into a canal, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday postponed the 'Griha Pravesh' (home inauguration) programme to be held in the state....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed grief over the demise of retired judge and former Governor of Bihar and Jharkhand M. Rama Jois who succumbed to his age related ailments in Bengaluru earlier in the day. In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, "Justice (Retd.) M. Rama Jois was a towering...

New Zealand reported no new case of Covid-19 on Tuesday, either in the community or in managed isolation. The Ministry of Health, however, announced that it formally recorded the sad death of a patient with Covid-19 at North Shore Hospital, which was first announced...

New World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has vowed to tackle her top priorities of fighting against the Covid-19 pandemic and promoting the free flow of vaccines and medical supplies, breaking the logjam in the dispute settlement mechanism and reaching a deal to cut fisheries subsidies....

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the Congress will establish an "outside, independent" commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by the supporters of former US President Donald Trump. ...

A Delhi Court has taken cognisance of a charge sheet filed against former JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in the 2016 sedition case...

In yet another incident of honour killing, this time a woman in Sant Kabir Nagar was burnt alive by her family members over an inter-faith love affair....