Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that his government would ensure availability of electricity at every home in the country by 2022. He made the assurance during his first engagement in his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi, where he met rickshaw pullers a ....

 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has sought to strike a chord with the people as she declassified 64 files pertaining to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, a freedom fighter who enjoys legendary status in the State. Putting oblique pressure on the Centre to foll ....

Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju told The Hindu that Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi should not undermine national interest by making such an offer. “The CM may have made the offer on humanitarian grounds, but it should not affect the government&rs ....

Minister of State for Culture (Independent charge) Mahesh Sharma told journalists on Thursday that the Executive Council of the NMML under the chairmanship of Lokesh Chandra had accepted Dr. Rangarajan’s offer to quit on Wednesday. “I was informed about t ....

Dismissing the plea that a two-day ban on meat ban was an expression of compassion to animals and a practice of the principle of ahimsa, the Bench of Justices T.S. Thakur and Kurian Joseph said that "compassion is not something that should be reserved only for fest ....

A Pew Report released on Thursday titled “The Modi Bounce,” noted, concern about air pollution is up 22 points during the past one year, complaints about poor-quality schools were up 20 points and worry about health care was up 15 points, even though Mr. Mod ....

 Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) was the final arbiter in decision-making under the National Democratic Alliance regime. This, he said, was in stark contrast to the ‘marginalisation’ of the PMO ....

 The Army on Friday foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Gurez sector in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, killing two militants. “An infiltration bid has been foiled in Gurez. Two terrorists have been killed,” Defence Sp ....

As per the report, the team managed to rescue the victims “after a great deal of persuasion.” It said, while the investigation team and others accompanying them were waiting in the lobby, the women started beating up the Nepalese women to desist them from le ....

It is nearly six years since The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) proposed energy-saving guidelines for integration in the building regulations for Bengaluru. Although several States, including Tamil Nadu, have already included TERI’s energy-saving guidelines ....