Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner Anil Chandra Punetha on Wednesday said the local body polls will proceed as per the schedule in all the notified municipalities except 19 in seven districts.

MLA Rohit Pawar on Wednesday demanded a financial relief package of Rs 85,000 crore for distressed farmers, agricultural labourers and women in Maharashtra amid drought. He appealed to the government ...

Over the past year, the UP police helped freeze Rs 635 crore in bank accounts linked to cybercrime cases, while road accidents and fatalities fell by 9 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively, in the ...

Amid a political slugfest between the BJP and the BJD in Odisha over neighbouring Andhra Pradesh holding rural polls in disputed Kotia villages, former Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday ...

The YSRCP State Coordinator S Ramakrishna Reddy on Wednesday alleged that 76 violent incidents have occurred across 11 districts during ZPTC and MPTC election nominations, including “attacks, arrests, ...

The body of a 30-year-old woman, who had been allegedly abducted, was recovered from a paddy field on Wednesday in Jharkhand’s Palamu district, police said. The woman, identified as Geeta Devi, was ...

The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Wednesday welcomed the special executive magistrate’s order releasing its leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, with the outfit’s legal head Ratna Singh saying the ...

The Gujarat government on Wednesday directed schools to tighten their entry rules and bar outsiders from entering the premises without prior permission. “Any external person shall obtain prior written ...

The Congress on Wednesday attacked the BJP over the arrest of two tribal rights activists in Odisha, alleging that the “double engine model” works to deny Adivasi communities their rights. The ...

A bullet that hit vlogger Umesh Chauhan and got lodged in his body during firing at actor Tiger Shroff’s car in Mumbai over the weekend was removed on Wednesday after surgery at civic-run KEM Hospital ...

Two people were injured in an explosion at an under-construction building here on Tuesday afternoon, with a battery blast suspected to have triggered the incident, police said. Karnataka Home Minister ...

Delhi recorded its first ‘poor’ air quality day of the season on Wednesday, with the AQI touching a 100-day high of 245, prompting the Centre to invoke Stage I of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP ...