Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday wrote a letter to his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee, urging her to refrain from referring to the Jagannath temple in Digha as ‘dham’.

Amid a water-sharing dispute with Punjab, Congress MPs from Haryana on Tuesday met Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil and urged him to help the state get its rightful share and implement the Supreme ...

The Delhi government will likely launch two new education programmes — New Era of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Vision (NEEEV) and Science of Living — on August 15, replacing the Aam Aadmi Party’s ...

A cache of ammunition, including two rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and five hand grenades, was recovered from Punjab’s SBS Nagar district, the state police ...

A nursing orderly of ESIC Hospital and Medical College here was caught red-handed while accepting Rs 3 lakh bribe from an aspirant to the staff nurse post, an official said on Tuesday. Deepak Sharma ...

A man allegedly bludgeoned his father to death with a brick over a domestic dispute in the Beniganj area of this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Tuesday. The alleged incident took place in ...

Business leaders and industry groups working across the India-UK corridor are on Tuesday rejoicing over the “historic” Free Trade Agreement, announced by Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Keir Starmer ...

Rajasthan officials on Tuesday reviewed the preparations for the mega civil defence mock drill ‘Operation Abhyaas’ to be held in 28 cities in the state under the direction of the Centre that has ...

Negotiations for the proposed bilateral investment treaty (BIT) between India and the UK are still on as both sides are yet to resolve certain outstanding issues, an official said. The two sides on ...

The civil defence mock drills will be conducted at the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS), Kalpakkam in Chengalpattu district, and in the Chennai Port Trust, here on May 7, at 4 pm, the state ...

Hindu right outfits on Tuesday staged a “maha rally” here in protest against the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl. The accused in the matter is a 72-year-old man belonging to a minority community.

All patients were evacuated safely after a fire broke out on the ground floor of a four-storey private hospital in Surat city of Gujarat on Tuesday evening, officials said. No casualty was reported in ...