India

The Tamil Nadu government declared a holiday on Tuesday for all educational institutions in Chennai, Kanchipuram and Thiruvallur districts.

Train passengers may have to shell out more as Railways is mulling increasing fares in a bid to raise resources after the Finance Ministry rejected its proposal of a special safety fund.

Although there are no official statistics in this regard, a quick analysis of the accounts of politicians active on Twitter appears to show that with around 6.69 million followers, Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj trails Kejriwal.

"The effort is on to increase production lines. The more the number of aircraft we produce, the faster we ramp up the capacity to close the gap created by obsolete and old aircraft," Raha said.

Nazneen, who teaches Information Communication Technology to the students, admitted that while other Muslim teachers remove their burqa and hijab while taking classes she is not ready to compromise with this at any cost.

With severe cyclone Vardah expected to cross the Bay of Bengal coast in the next two days, the Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday placed the administrative machinery in SPS Nellore, Prakasam, Guntur and Krishna districts on high alert to meet any event...

The ruling AIADMK on Saturday released a list of 203 deceased persons, saying they died of "shock" over the demise of party supremo and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on December 5, taking the number of toll in this regard to 280.

"As the four occupants, including a woman, failed to give any satisfactory explanation about the source of cash in their possession, they have been detained and brought to police station," it said.

AAP member Bhagwant Mann, who was held guilty by a parliamentary panel of putting the security of Parliament House at risk, was today suspended from the Lok Sabha for the remainder of the Winter Session.

The Hyderabad High Court on Friday quashed ACB court order against AP CM Chandrababu Naidu in cash for vote scam.

Leh in Ladakh region was recorded as the coldest place in Jammu and Kashmir with a minimum temperature of minus 11.5 degrees Celsius, as the mercury continued to hover below freezing point in most parts of the Valley.

Manipur government, led by Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh, has decided to form 7 more new districts, bifurcating the existing 9 districts of the state, a state cabinet secretariat source said on Friday.

In a bid to promote cashless transactions in Chhattisgarh, the government has decided to form a 'digital army' of around 10 lakh people who will encourage use of electronic payments across the state.

ONGC Videsh Ltd Managing Director Narendra K Verma said yesterday in New Delhi that India and Russia were in talks to swap natural gas with Myanmar and China respectively as an alternative to build a USD 25-billion pipeline, which would be the world's mos...

India had expelled Pakistan High Commission staffer Mehmood Akhtar on charges of spying, triggering a tit for tat action by Islamabad, which also expelled an Indian High Commission official posted there.

The rumour of discovery of gold coins in Janakipura village of Malpura in Tonk district of Rajasthan is true after official confirmation by the police.