
The Maharashtra government has postponed the reopening of schools - scheduled to re-start from August 17 - following a meeting of the Covid-19 Task Force held late on Wednesday, officials said here on Thursday....

The Goa Police on Thursday issued a public appeal urging people not to broadcast photos of the remains of a 19-year-old girl, who was found in a semi-naked state at the popular Calangute beach earlier in the day....

A day after the opposition and the government blamed each other for chaos in the Rajya Sabha, the opposition took their case to House Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu's door on Thursday....

Bidding farewell to Justice R.F. Nariman, Chief Justice N.V. Ramana on Thursday turned emotional and said in his 'brother Nariman' the top court will be "losing one of its lions" as he retires. Hailing Nariman's judgments that reflected erudition, clarity of thought, and scholarly approach, the chief justice wondered ...

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture has warned the Centre about states' participation in the flagship Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) going down year by year, while criticising the problematic performance of the private insurance companies involved....

The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) court has directed the police to hold a preliminary inquiry into alleged fake degrees of Uttar Pradesh deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya....

The wreckage of the bus that fell into a 500-metre deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district following a massive landslide was recovered on Thursday morning, rescuers said. Fifteen people lost their lives so far, while 20 others were still missing....

A day after a video showing three rape accused being forced to do sit-ups in the nude at the Aguada central jail in North Goa, prison authorities on Wednesday directed a probe into the incident....

With at least 20 new cases of Covid's Delta Plus variant detected, the total number of patients in the state infected by it has shot up to 65, health officials said on Wednesday....

Covid continues to rage in Kerala with 23,500 new cases registered on Wednesday, while the only saving grace was that the daily test positivity rate fell from 15.91 per cent to 14.49 per cent....