India

Around 21.08 per cent of voters have exercised their franchise till 1 PM on Sunday in election for 26 wards of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation where polling is going "smoothly".

A village in central Kashmir's Budgam district has become the first village in the state to go 'cashless'.

A slight technical fault in Delhi Metro on Sunday caused the trains on Blue Line to run with less frequency, and resulted in inconvenience to hundreds of morning commuters going to work.

A fire broke out at a slum in suburban Kurla in the wee hours on Sunday, an official said.

India has made a fresh request to Denmark seeking extradition of Niels Holck aka Kim Davy, an accused in the 21-year-old Purulia arms drop case.

The Indian security establishment saw two high-level appointments being made on Saturday with Rajiv Jain tapped in as the Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief and Anil Dhasmana elevated to head the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).

At least 12 Burkina Faso soldiers were killed in what local authorities said was the biggest ever jihadist attack on the army, at a base near the restive border with Mali.

The Congress on Friday hit back hard at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him to go through history first to know who puts the party before the nation.

It proposes to set up Board of Port Authority for each major port, in place of the Board of Trustees. "This will empower the major ports to perform with greater efficiency on account of full autonomy in decision making and by modernising the institutional...

China, which stonewalled India's entry into the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) at the Seoul plenary in June, is not a member of the 34-nation MTCR.

"Post demonetisation, the store was showing the price of diamonds at Rs 4 to Rs 5 lakh per carat and at this price, best diamonds are found in the world and they are generally not found in India," he said.

Relation between West Bengal and Bangladesh goes beyond borders and ties between India and its neighbour can never be imagined by omitting the eastern state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday

Urjit Patel was shown black flags at the airport in Kolkata during a protest by Congress workers against demonetisation.

Officials said the searches were conducted at 15 lockers, belonging to one person, in the Parvati area branch of Bank of Maharashtra of the city.

In its first phase, the scheme is being implemented simultaneously at 80 places in 12 districts, including Raje’s constituency Jhalrapatan in Jhalawar besides Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Ajmer, Bikaner, Udaipur, Bharatpur, Baran, Banswara, Dungarpur and Pratap...

A local court in Haridwar has slapped Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved's five production units with a fine of Rs 11 lakh for "misbranding and putting up misleading advertisements" of their products.