Two Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters and six boats of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have left for Vangani on Saturday to rescue around 1,500 passengers stranded in the Mahalaxmi Express train after a torrential downpour continued in Mumbai and surroundings for the third consecutive day, officials said. ...
The 20th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas was commemorated in a grand manner at the Kargil War Memorial here on Friday with all the three service chiefs as well as the then Army chief, other veterans and kin of soldiers participating....
Karnataka's new Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Friday said that he will prove his majority in the state Assembly on Monday....
Soon after Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala invited him to form the government, Chief Minister-designate B.S. Yediyurappa on Friday directed Chief Secretary T.M. Vijay Bhaskar to withhold all new projects and transfers made by the earlier JD-S-Congress coalition government in this month....
In a setback to the Maharashtra government, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the Bombay High Court order, which quashed the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) approval for the Rs 12,000 crore coastal road project, and under construction by Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, which has engaged private players such as Larsen & Tou...
A day after outgoing Congress President Rahul Gandhi returned to India, he appointed Eknath Gaikwad as the Mumbai regional Congress Working President on Friday....
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on a petition seeking direction to stop increasing mob lynching incidents targeting the minority community in the country. A set of directions was laid down by the top court in its 2018 judgement to prevent mob lynching....
Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala on Friday sworn in BJP state president B.S. Yediyurappa as Chief Minister of the southern state at Raj Bhavan in the city centre. ...
Communist Party of India (Marxist) State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Friday said that everything is fine between the two Communist parties in Kerala....
As Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced launching its Payments service in India later this year, the fears of data privacy came back to the fore, with the government reportedly asking the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to ensure that users' data are not shared. ...