West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tied rakhi to former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at his residence today ahead of the meeting of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc in Mumbai on Thursday.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is not a candidate for the Prime Minister's post, said his cabinet colleague Atishi on Wednesday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said his government will soon start construction of 1,000 bridges across the state.

Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) Visitors can now enter the park with digital tickets that will be available on their smartphones. The WhatsApp number will soon be prominently displayed at various locations near the zoo.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s suspension from Lok Sabha was revoked Wednesday, hours after a Parliamentary panel made a recommendation to the effect, the Lok Sabha Secretariat said in a notification.

With about one-third of the state’s geographical area experiencing deficit rainfall due to weak monsoon, the state government has prepared a contingency plan to deal with the situation, a top official said Wednesday.

The state government has asked all collectors to install CCTV cameras at Paddy Procurement Centres (PPCs) in their districts. Registrar of Cooperative Societies has recently written a letter to all Collectors (except Bolangir) for installation of CCTV cameras in PPCs under their jurisdiction.

Business establishments, apartments and shopping malls should install at least one camera focused towards public roads, the Commissionerate Police said, Wednesday.

The Union government Wednesday extended the deadline for mandatory use of Aadhaar based payment system (ABPS) for payment of wages to MGNREGAworkers till December 31 or further orders.

China Wednesday defended its move to release a new “standard map” for 2023 showing Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as part of its territory, saying that it is a “routine practice” in accordance with its law and urged India to “stay objective and calm” and refrain from “over-interpreting” the issue.

A lawyer was shot dead Wednesday in his chambers on the tehsil court complex in this Uttar Pradesh district, police here said. Manoj Chowdhary alias Monu Jaat was eating lunch in his chambers around 2 pm when two men entered the room and fired at him. He died on the spot, police said.

Researchers have developed an innovative patient triage platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that they say can predict patient disease severity and length of hospitalisation during a viral outbreak.

Bumper earnings in the first five months of the current fiscal and international benchmark coming off its highs will help state-owned oil companies absorb the Rs 200 per cylinder cut in cooking gas LPG prices, sources said indicating there may be no government compensation for that.

Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty retreated from early highs to close on a flat note Wednesday due to fag-end selling in banking and power shares amid mixed global cues.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to resume hearing Thursday a clutch of petitions challenging the remission granted to all 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Seeking to fulfill another key pre-poll promise, the Congress government in Karnataka Wednesday launched the 'Gruha Lakshmi' scheme, offering a monthly assistance of Rs 2,000 to about 1.1 crore women who are heads of their households.

The CBI has taken over the investigation in 27 FIRs lodged in connection with ethnic clashes in Manipur that have claimed more than 160 lives in nearly four months, officials said.

About 80 per cent of Indians have a favourable view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and around seven in 10 Indians believe their country has recently become more influential, according to a survey by the PEW Research Center.

Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy was admitted on Wednesday morning after weakness and discomfort.

 In the Opposition meeting in Mumbai today, members of the INDIA alliance are expected to finalise a logo, a coordination committee, and a joint action plan to take on the ruling BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.