Stela Dey With Inputs From Agencies

The Patna High Court dismissed RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's petition challenging the Bihar government's order asking him to vacate the bungalow allotted to him while he was the deputy chief minister.

The cold wave in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir continued as Himachal Pradesh saw the sun for the first time in days after widespread snowfall.

A 16-year-old girl died and 8 people were injured today after an SUV lost control and collided with multiple vehicles near Meera Bagh in Delhi's Paschim Vihar.

Faizabad will now be called Ayodhya, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna said today after an Uttar Pradesh cabinet meeting approved the renaming.

A Congress worker on Sunday alleged that BJP leader Subhash Shirodkar's supporters have threatened her with gangrape if she campaigned against him.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday defended renaming the city of Allahabad to Prayagraj by alluding to mythological villains. After a backlash over the name change, the chief minister questioned why the protesters were not named "Raavan" or "Duryodhan" - antagonists from Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. He was speaking at a...

Heavy snowfall in the Kashmir Valley has caused power breakdown in the region. Since Saturday morning, there is no electricity in most parts of the state. Officials say they are trying to restore power supply but to no avail. Several hospitals are without power supply and students had to take their exams in candle lights.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today unveiled the Statue of Unity, which at 182 metres is the tallest in the world, as a tribute to freedom icon Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 143rd birth anniversary. Air jets flow over the statue, helicopters showered flowers on it with fireworks in the green, orange and white colours as PM Modi dedicated it to the...

A woman, upset at not being able to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi, torched a Lucknow-bound bus on Wednesday, police said. The woman has been arrested. She has been campaigning for a separate state of Purvanchal to be carved out of Uttar Pradesh and was allegedly stopped by th...

The Madras High Court suo moto initiated contempt proceedings against BJP National Secretary H Raja over his alleged "derogatory remarks" against the judiciary on Saturday.

Two opposition MLAs, including the Leader of Opposition, waved shoes at one another following heated exchanges on the last day of the monsoon session of the Haryana Assembly.

A man was beaten to death by a mob on Tuesday after he and his two accomplices allegedly tried to loot money from railway employees. The incident happened in Bihar's Rohtas district making this the third such incident in the state within a week.

An Ola cab driver was shot dead by unidentified men in south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur, police said on Sunday.

A six-year-old homeless girl was brutally raped by a 24-year-old man in central Delhi, a police official told news agency PTI today.

Delhi-NCR is likely to witness "thundery developments" in the later part of the day today. The maximum temperature was likely to hover around 44 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season's average. It was a sunny morning today with the minimum temperature at 26.7 degree Celsius, which is also the season's average.

The Patna High Court dismissed RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's petition challenging the Bihar government's order asking him to vacate the bungalow allotted to him while he was the deputy chief minister.

The cold wave in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir continued as Himachal Pradesh saw the sun for the first time in days after widespread snowfall.

A 16-year-old girl died and 8 people were injured today after an SUV lost control and collided with multiple vehicles near Meera Bagh in Delhi's Paschim Vihar.

Faizabad will now be called Ayodhya, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna said today after an Uttar Pradesh cabinet meeting approved the renaming.

A Congress worker on Sunday alleged that BJP leader Subhash Shirodkar's supporters have threatened her with gangrape if she campaigned against him.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday defended renaming the city of Allahabad to Prayagraj by alluding to mythological villains. After a backlash over the name change, the chief minister questioned why the protesters were not named "Raavan" or "Duryodhan" - antagonists from Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. He was speaking at a...

Heavy snowfall in the Kashmir Valley has caused power breakdown in the region. Since Saturday morning, there is no electricity in most parts of the state. Officials say they are trying to restore power supply but to no avail. Several hospitals are without power supply and students had to take their exams in candle lights.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today unveiled the Statue of Unity, which at 182 metres is the tallest in the world, as a tribute to freedom icon Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 143rd birth anniversary. Air jets flow over the statue, helicopters showered flowers on it with fireworks in the green, orange and white colours as PM Modi dedicated it to the...

A woman, upset at not being able to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi, torched a Lucknow-bound bus on Wednesday, police said. The woman has been arrested. She has been campaigning for a separate state of Purvanchal to be carved out of Uttar Pradesh and was allegedly stopped by th...

The Madras High Court suo moto initiated contempt proceedings against BJP National Secretary H Raja over his alleged "derogatory remarks" against the judiciary on Saturday.

Two opposition MLAs, including the Leader of Opposition, waved shoes at one another following heated exchanges on the last day of the monsoon session of the Haryana Assembly.

A man was beaten to death by a mob on Tuesday after he and his two accomplices allegedly tried to loot money from railway employees. The incident happened in Bihar's Rohtas district making this the third such incident in the state within a week.

An Ola cab driver was shot dead by unidentified men in south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur, police said on Sunday.

A six-year-old homeless girl was brutally raped by a 24-year-old man in central Delhi, a police official told news agency PTI today.

Delhi-NCR is likely to witness "thundery developments" in the later part of the day today. The maximum temperature was likely to hover around 44 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season's average. It was a sunny morning today with the minimum temperature at 26.7 degree Celsius, which is also the season's average.