
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Minister Surama Padhy on Wednesday filed her nomination for the Speaker's post in the Odisha Assembly. ...

Senior leader Rahul Gandhi shared a lighter moment at the Congress headquarters on Wednesday as he cut his birthday cake, in presence of party President Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi and other senior leaders. ...

In a worrying factor, several bats were found dead in the Nana Rao Park in Kanpur due to the intense heatwave that has gripped the region. ...

Former Haryana Congress leader Kiran Choudhry and her daughter Shruti Choudhry on Wednesday joined the BJP here, saying she would “work tirelessly to ensure the party returns to power in the state for a third time in a row”. ...

Jana Sena leader Pawan Kalyan assumed office as Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister on Wednesday. ...

The average rainfall for the country as a whole is most likely to be below normal in June as the progress of the monsoon has slowed, according to an India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast on Wednesday. ...

Tension between Raj Bhavan and the state secretariat seems to be mounting as the West Bengal government is yet to react to a missive by Governor CV Ananda Bose asking for removal of Kolkata Police personnel from security duty. ...

The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Wednesday said that he has rejected a “conditional permission” from Kolkata Police to stage a peaceful sit-in demonstration in front of Raj Bhavan. ...

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of the External Affairs Ministry's non-response to Kerala Minister for Health Veena George's visit to Kuwait to coordinate relief efforts following the fire incident. ...

A local cleric and his pregnant wife have been arrested for allegedly repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl inside a mosque compound in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut on the pretext of teaching her Urdu. ...