India

A local court here on Saturday sentenced a man to 10 years' imprisonment for raping a girl in 2018. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict.

Adityanath was reviewing the arrangements being made for coronavirus vaccination at a high-level meeting convened at Lok Bhavan in Lucknow.

In 2019 alone, the WFP (World Food Programme) had sourced about 11,000 metric tons of pulses, sorghum, wheat, and rice from India to assist vulnerable populations.

Apple Inc has placed supplier Wistron Corp on probation, saying on Saturday it would not award the Taiwanese contract manufacturer new business until it addressed the way workers were treated at its southern India plant.

India's COVID-19 caseload surpassed the somber one-crore mark on Saturday, adding 10 lakh cases in nearly a month, while the total number of recoveries surged to 95.50 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry's data.

The agitation was organised on the 60th anniversary of Goa's liberation from Portuguese rule that is being celebrated on Saturday.

Additional cases in the past 24 hours dropped to 25,152 from a peak level of nearly 100,000 in mid-September. The epidemic has infected nearly 1% of Indias more than 1.3 billion people, second to the worst-hit United States.

In its forecast from December 17-24 and from December 24-30, the IMD said the minimum temperatures would be below normal by 2-6 degrees Celsius over most parts of northwest, central and east India. Near normal or slightly above normal temperatures are lik...

The Central Public Works Department (CPWD), which is executing the project, has revised the estimated cost from Rs 11,794 crore to Rs 13,450 crore. The prime minister's new residence will be built on a 15-acre plot and it will have 10 buildings and they w...

All members of the Monetary Policy Committee had voted for maintaining status quo in the policy review announced on December 4.

"Unless and until I am satisfied that the resignation is voluntary and genuine, it is not possible for me to accept the same in the light of the provisions of the Constitution of India and the rules of procedure and conduct of business in West Bengal Legi...

The accident took place around 2.30 am in Oshiwara in western suburbs when the driver of the high-end car tried to overtake the scooty of the delivery boy, the official said.

An editorial in Sena mouthpiece "Saamana" said in present times Chinese and Pakistani forces are creating disturbances on borders with India.

The government has said the councils, empowered under the J&K Panchayati Raj Act of 1989, are designed to streamline development across the 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir. However, some local analysts feel the essential purpose of the DDCs is to end al...

Renewable energy platform Ayana on Thursday got additional funding worth USD 390 million from the CDC, the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and the Green Growth Equity Fund (GGEF). CDC Group, the UK's development finance institution an...

Facebook India's head told a parliamentary panel on Wednesday that its factchecking team has not found any content that necessitates a ban on the Bajrang Dal, sources had said.