With the demand by States for the release of money under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to clear pending liabilities and dues getting more persistent, Rural Development Minister Birender Singh has written to Finance Minister Arun Jai ....

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Aam Aadmi Party government if the odd-even rule for restriction on vehicles on roads, introduced by it on an experimental basis, could be discontinued by Friday, while directing it to submit the data indicating changes in pollutio ....

“None of us can believe what they did. We have two infantry divisions and two armoured brigades in the vicinity. We have at least three corps headquarters in a couple of hours’ drive, and the Northern Army headquarters too. All of those troops are seasoned i ....

At the peak of wrangling over coalition partners when a fractured mandate was thrown up in Jammu and Kashmir in December 2014, donning a long trademark sleeping gown, Mr. Sayeed told this correspondent in a one-to-one conversation over a cup of traditional hot drink keh ....

 Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away of multiple organ failure in New Delhi on Thursday morning after nearly a week long hospitalisation. He was 79. "He died due to multi-organ failure at 9:10 this morning despite our best attemp ....

 North Korea said it conducted a powerful hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday, a defiant and surprising move that, if confirmed, would be a huge jump in Pyongyang’s quest to improve its still-limited nuclear arsenal. South Korea’s spy agency and outside nucl ....

 North Korea said it conducted a powerful hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday, a defiant and surprising move that, if confirmed, would be a huge jump in Pyongyang’s quest to improve its still-limited nuclear arsenal. South Korea’s spy agency and outside nucl ....

“My opponent says that as a senator, she told bankers to ‘cut it out’ and end their destructive behaviour,” Mr. Sanders said of Ms. Clinton. “But, in my view, establishment politicians are the ones who need to ‘cut it out’. &ls ....

The U.S said it considered the latest nuclear explosion carried out by North Korea a matter of U.S. national security, and declared that it would stand steadfast in its alliance commitment to South Korea. North Korea has repeatedly threatened the U.S. and has described the ....

As opposed to the atomic bomb, the kind dropped on Japan in the closing days of World War II, the hydrogen bomb, or so-called “superbomb” can be far more powerful, experts say, by 1,000 times or more. North Korea’s first three nuclear tests, from 20 ....