Come July 6, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be here in his Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh to flag off a membership campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He will also start a massive plantation campaign of 27 lakh saplings in Varanasi. This will be Modi's first visit to his constituency after becoming Prime ...
In what can be termed as a masterstroke, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has included 17 OBC castes in the Scheduled Castes (SC) list. A decision to this effect was taken late Friday night and authorities have been directed to issue caste certificate to families belonging to these 17 castes. ...
Maverick legislator Alpesh Thakor, who had quit the Congress in the run up to the Lok Sabha elections in April, has now turned around and claimed he had only resigned from all posts but not from the party, after a writ petition by the Opposition in the Gujarat High Court seeking his ...
In a bid to transform the higher education sector in the country, the Ministry of Human Resource Development on Friday released an ambitious five-year vision plan. The report has been termed as Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP), which will be taken to the Cabinet for approval after inter-...
A CPI-M delegation on Friday met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to resolve the impasse over the left party not getting possession of a plot of land purchased by it for setting up a research centre in the name of late party patriarch Jyoti Basu....
The West Bengal government's decision to construct mid-day meal dining rooms in every state-run schools with at least 70 per cent students from the minority community has triggered yet another controversy with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accusing it of discrimination and even questioning if there was any 'malafide motive'...
The Vatican issued an appeal to Chinese authorities on Friday to make the process of registering clergy "more respectful of Catholic doctrine, and thus of the consciences of those involved"....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday conveyed to US President Donald Trump concerns over tensions in the Persian Gulf related to Iran, saying "instability" in the region affects India in "many ways" besides the energy aspect....
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said no civilian was killed in the air and surgical strikes by Indian troops on terrorist hubs in Pakistan....
Lok Sabha on Friday gave go-ahead to resolution seeking extension of President's rule in Jammu and Kashmir for another six months and passed the Bill to expand reservation benefits in the state bringing people living on the International Border (IB) under its fold as Union Home Minister Amit Shah assured that the government was in ...
