In the parched badlands of Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand, wells and ponds have dried up, rivers have shrunk miserably. Water scarcity is a way of life in this region of Uttar Pradesh - made worse this year by lack of rainfall. ...
At least three persons were killed and another 24 missing after a small dam burst near Bhendewadi hamlet after a torrential downpour late on Tuesday night, an official said here on Wednesday....
The leadership crisis in the Congress after party chief Rahul Gandhi offered to step down following the Lok Sabha drubbing may end soon as the party is all set to call a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting to decide on the new President....
Unfazed by the resignation of its two legislators, Congress leaders on Tuesday claimed that there was no threat to its year-old coalition government in Karnataka....
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Receiving the record rainfall, Mumbai was paralysed on Tuesday, with most roads getting clogged and local train services, the financial capitals lifeline, virtually coming to a standstill....
Banned terrorist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh has been using some madrasas in West Bengal's Burdwan and Murshidabad districts in West Bengal for radicalization and recruitment activities, Parliament was told on Tuesday....
In order to consolidate its footprints on a pan-India basis, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has decided to set up more ‘shakhas in the southern states and, most importantly, in Jammu and Kashmir. ...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K.Palaniswami on Tuesday said the government will continue with the existing 69 per cent reservation (50 per cent for Backward Classes and 19 per cent for Scheduled Castes) in medical college admissions....
The Yogi Adityanath government, late on Monday night, transferred top police officials in Agra and Meerut for their apparent failure to contain violence that erupted during ‘unauthorized protest marches taken out against the lynching of Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand. ...
