
The Telangana State Election Commission on Wednesday asked the state government to put on hold distribution of flood relief funds among people in Greater Hyderabad as this is likely to affect the model code of conduct....

A total of 13 ministers of the 15-member newly sworn-in Bihar cabinet are crorepatis and the average assents of these leaders 3.93 crore, said Bihar Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR)....

After the Diwali weekend and Bhai Dooj celebrations came to an end, India recorded more than 30 per cent jump in new cases of Covid-19 with 38,617 new cases reported in past 24 hours pushing the cumulative the tally to 89,12,907, data from the Union Health Ministry showed on Wednesday. ...

Nine members of a family, including five women and a child, were killed and at least 16 others injured in a road accident in the early hours of Wednesday at Waghodia crossroads near Vadodara in Gujarat, police said. The accident occurred when an Eicher truck carrying around 25 to 30 members of...

As the world's leading economies are directing trillions of dollars towards COVID-19 recovery packages, a significant proportion is going to fossil fuel industries without climate-related conditions, risking clean energy opportunities in the coming decade, a G20 climate performance report said on Wednesday. ...

The state Vigilance Department on Wednesday arrested the former PWD Minister and senior legislator of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) V.K. Ebrahim Kunju in the Palarivattom flyover collapse case. He was arrested from the hospital where he had been admitted a day earlier....

Congress continues to be split wide open on the RCEP issue with different leaders taking different postures on whether to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership even though a year has gone by since the party took a stand on the deal that has now neen signed sans India. ...

Telangana reported 948 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday to take the overall tally to 2,59,776, health officials said. Five more people succumbed to the virus during the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative death toll to 1,415....

The colleges and universities in Uttar Pradesh will reopen from November 23. The higher educational institutions will reopen with 50 per cent attendance of students on a roster basis after a gap of eight months due to the pandemic. The state government has issued guidelines for reopening of the colleges and ...

Amid the rise in Covid-19 cases in the NCR, particularly in the national capital, authorities in Noida have decided that people coming from Delhi to Noida will be randomly tested for the virus from Wednesday onwards. ...