Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women’s rights and democracy, and against the death penalty.

Odisha will soon become a hub of cancer care in eastern India, says Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik,

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has declared the Gangetic Dolphin as the state aquatic animal.

Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari announced on Friday that schemes worth ₹ 154.25 crore had been approved for the Una and Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh under the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CIRF).

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday announced the formation of three new districts in poll-bound Rajasthan, taking their total number to 53.

A 60-year-old man allegedly raped a five-year-old girl and later hanged himself in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, police said on Friday.

Experienced wrestler Bajrang Punia suffers embarrassing defeats to make Asian Games exit without a medal.

The Supreme Court Friday questioned the Bihar government as to why it published its caste survey data but refused to restrain it from making public further data, and said it may examine if the state has power to conduct such an exercise.

Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, whose indefinite sit-in outside Raj Bhavan here entered its second day Friday, said the time for the governor avoiding difficult questions is over as the people are demanding their rightful dues of the MNREGS funds withheld by it.

The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear October 9 the arguments on petitions challenging the premature release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

 The Delhi High Court Friday sought the response of the city police on the pleas filed by NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and human resources department head Amit Chakravarty challenging their arrest in a case lodged under antiterror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

Irked over the minimal use of technology, the Supreme Court Friday said no high court in the country shall deny access to video conference or hearing through hybrid mode to lawyers and litigants after two weeks and made clear that technology now is not a matter of choice for judges.

Freebies being doled out by the Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan governments ahead of the assembly polls Friday came under scrutiny by the Supreme Court which sought responses from the two states, the Centre and the Election Commission on a PIL alleging misuse of public money.

Canada has evacuated a majority of its diplomats working in India outside of New Delhi to either Kuala Lumpur or Singapore after it gave Ottawa an October 10 deadline to reduce its diplomatic staff to achieve parity in strength following a row over the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, according to a media report Friday.

Turkish warplanes have carried out airstrikes on sites believed to be used by a US-backed Kurdish militia in northern Syria, after the US military shot down an armed Turkish drone that came within 500 meters (yards) of American troops, officials said Friday.

The government has issued notices to social media platforms X, formerly Twitter, YouTube and Telegram to remove child sexual abuse material from their platforms in India, an official statement said Friday.

Congress on Friday raised before the Election Commission the issue of duplication in electoral rolls in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. The poll panel disclosed that it has already removed 11 lakh duplicate names in a bid to present a clean voters' list.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Thursday lowered the trade growth projection for 2023 to 0.8 per cent amid global manufacturing slowdown.

A 13-year wait ended in archery Friday when the Indian men’s and women’s teams surpassed expectations to clinch a silver and bronze respectively, their first medals since 2010, at the Asian Games here Friday

Title favourites India confirmed a medal in men’s cricket competition with a crushing ninewicket win over Bangladesh to sail into the final of the Asian Games here Friday. India will take on Afghanistan, who defeated Pakistan in the other semifinal, in the gold medal clash Saturday.