The government has "in principle" approved 10 sites for setting up new nuclear power projects, parliament was told on Wednesday. ...
Thousands of people on Wednesday converged here in the cultural hub of Kerala to celebrate the grand finale of the nearly week-long Thrissur Pooram festival, an annual temple festival and one of the biggest of its kind in the state...
India's e-tourist visa scheme, earlier known as tourist visa on arrival, will be extended to 31 more countries from May 1, it was announced on Wednesday....
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the city government to respond to a plea seeking directions to remove all "unlicensed" loudspeakers from mosques and temples in the capital over rise in noise pollution levels....
After terming farmers who commit suicide as "cowards" and "criminals under law", a senior Haryana minister retracted his statement on Wednesday and said that committing suicide was a sign of "weakness" and the state's farmers were brave....
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on problems in the agricultural sector, asking him to visit Punjab and learn about the plight of farmers who are integral to the government's flagship 'Make in India' initiative. The government hit back, asking him to visit his own constituency first....
A grimy finger sticking out of the rubble of a four-storeyed building here alerts a team to the presence of the body of a three-year old boy who died when a major temblor hit Nepal. Then the effort begins to bring him out. ...
The toll in the massive earthquake that devastated Nepal on April 25 crossed 5,000 on Wednesday, Sindhupalchok being the worst affected district with 1,400 deaths, the government said....
In a bid to remove the fear of future harassment over decisions taken in good faith by policy-makers but assign stricter punishment for graft, the cabinet on Wednesday approved key changes in the anti-corruption law to be placed before parliament....
In a move aimed at mitigating the impact of diversion of forest land for non-forest use, the union cabinet on Wednesday okayed the introduction of a bill to set up an institutional mechanism for the intended purpose....
