
The ordinance on 'forced' or 'fraudulent' religious conversions, which was promulgated by the Uttar Pradesh government in November last year, will be formally passed by the state Assembly in the upcoming Budget Session. Though the opposition is preparing to vehemently oppose the passage of the ...

With Assembly polls in Kerala slated to be held in April-May 2021, talks are doing the rounds that the state Congress could get a new chief as incumbent Mullappally Ramachandran is likely to be moved to the Upper House of Parliament. Congress' Kannur Lok Sabha MP K Sudhakaran is the front runner for the party ...

Police in Telangana's Nalgonda district on Wednesday detained leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in view of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao's visit to the district. Several BJP leaders across the district were taken into preventive custody late...

The New Zealand government has extended additional support to clean up the environment with the approval for 22 new low-emission transport projects, Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods said on Wednesday. A community electric bike and car share scheme, additional EV charging stations...

The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 106.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.33 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

Hope Probe, the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Mars mission, has successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit, making the country's space agency the fifth in the world to achieve the feat, authorities announced here on Wednesday....

Warren Hastings, the 18th Century British Governor-General of Bengal, made an appearance in the Senate trial when the prosecutors cited his impeachment by the British House of Commons after he had left office as a precedent for trying Donald Trump who is no longer the President....

The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday slammed the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) for its decision to charge Rs 5 per head for use of public toilets in the city. AAP leader Durgesh Pathak, who is also in-charge of MCD bypolls, slammed the BJP ...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that as much as Rs 800 crore had been recovered by attaching the assets of chit fund companies and the money returned to 50,000 investors. He also said that 2,000 hectares of government land valued at Rs 10,000 crore...

Construction work on the 1.4-km-long Trilokpuri stretch of the Delhi Metro's Pink Line has begun. "It is expected that the civil work will be completed by the end of March and preliminary trials are expected to start thereafter," Anuj Dayal, Executive ...