Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Saturday that BJP stalwart and former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani will be conferred the Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, and described it as a very emotional moment for him.

US launches airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the militias it backs

A saffron party MLA shoots a local Shiv Sena leader inside a police station in Thane district rendering him critical.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday inaugurated the first ever ‘Biswa Odia Bhasha Sammilani’ (World Odia Language Conference) here at Janata Maidan.

Pakistan former PM Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan were sentenced to seven years in prison and fined Saturday by a court that ruled their 2018 marriage violated the law, his party said.

Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Banwarilal Purohit submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu Saturday, citing personal reasons.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Saturday inaugurated 492-bedded Dharmasala, one of its kind facilities in the state and among all new AIIMS across the country.

After successful launch and operationalisation of Location Multi-modal Initiative (LAccMI) scheme in Malkangiri, Gajapati, Kalahandi, Rayagada, Nabarangpur and Koraput districts, the public transport scheme was launched in three more key districts – Angul, Dhenkanal and Deogarh.

The Hindu side has announced a schedule of five ‘aartis’ that will be held on a daily basis in the basement of Gyanvapi mosqueShringar Gauri complex.

After a fivehour drama, Crime Branch officials of the Delhi Police Saturday served a notice on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, asking him to reply within three days in a probe into his claims that the BJP attempted to poach seven AAP MLAs.

The Enforcement Directorate Saturday filed a complaint against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a court here for not appearing before it in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam. The complaint was filed before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Divya Malhotra, who put up the matter for further hearing February 7.

The Red Sea crisis, which has forced shipping vessels to take a longer detour to avoid being hit by missiles, will not cause any inflationary impact or drastic shortage of goods in India, head of a USIndia body said, emphasising that the Asia’s third-largest economy can survive the crisis.

Reliance Industries Ltd has been conferred on IFR Asia’s ‘Issuer of the Year’ Award for 2023 for achieving most optimal pricing for super-sized funding deals while overcoming multiple market challenges.

GST intelligence officers have detected fake Input Tax Credit (ITC) cases worth Rs 18,000 crore from April to December in the current fiscal and arrested 98 people, the finance ministry said Saturday.

 India blunted Pakistan’s challenge on the opening day to take a 2-0 lead in the Davis Cup World Group I playoff tie with Ramkumar Ramanathan and N Sriram Balaji rising to the occasion in the high-pressure contest, here Saturday.