The third Covid wave surge in India saw younger population as patients with lesser proportions of all symptoms and higher level of co-morbidities, Indian Council of Medical Research chief, Dr Balram Bhargava said on Thursday. ....

After several Congress leaders and MLAs recently joined the BJP in poll-bound Manipur, the ruling BJP received another boost on Thursday when a prominent Manipuri film star R.K Somendro Singh, popularly known as Kaiku, joined the saffron party along with 40 co-actors and associates from the film community. ....

India is already facing trailers of future wars and it is being witnessed in information battlefield, cyber space and unsettled and active borders, said Indian Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Thursday pointing out challenges from China and Pakistan. ....

He's the youngest and crowd-puller candidate in the Punjab electoral arena as he understands the pulse and instantly strikes a "musical" chord with voters. ....

Uttar Pradesh deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday filed his nomination papers from the Sirathu Assembly segment in Kaushambhi district. ....

Chinese People's Liberation Army lost 42 soldiers, not four during the Galwan Valley clashes with the Indian troops in Eastern Ladakh, claims The Klaxon, an Australian newspaper, on Thursday. The clashes took place on June 15, 2020. ....

In a setback to the BJP-JJP government in Haryana, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday stayed the state government law to give 75 per cent reservation to youth belonging to the state in the private sector. ....

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Thursday to hold a discussion on 10 issues pertaining to the different departments and apprise him of the developments in various projects. ....

The West Bengal State Election Commission (SEC) has announced that it will conduct the municipal elections in the state on February 27. ....

The Allahabad High Court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) counsel to verify the fact whether Anand Giri, one of the accused in the alleged suicide case of Mahant Narendra Giri, had visited Australia in May 2019 and whether he was arrested there in a molestation case. ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will file his nomination papers from Gorakhpur (Urban) on Friday. ....

Superstar turned politician, Kamal Haasan has announced that he would seek donations from the public for his political party, Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM). ....

A man was held at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport with a pistol and two empty magazines by the Customs officials. ....

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's speech in the Parliament on Wednesday has drawn huge flak from the ruling BJP leaders. ....

Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday took a jibe at Samajwadi Party (SP) saying that mafia in Uttar Pradesh can only be found in jails or the candidate list of the party. ....

In a major climbdown, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Nitesh Rane, son of Union MSME Minister Narayan Rane, will surrender before the Maharashtra Police, his lawyers said here on Wednesday. ....

Underworld Don Chhota Rajan was discharged by a Special Mumbai court in connection with a MCOCA case lodged against him and others. ....

Weeks after Congress party candidates took a public oath in front of religious deities against defecting to other political parties after elections, candidates of the AAP in Goa on Wednesday signed affidavits against switching political parties after the February 14 polls. ....

BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday said in the Rajya Sabha that the criminalisation of marital rape will end the institution of marriage. ....

The Odisha government has dismissed senior IAS officer and former managing director of the Odisha Rural Housing Development Corporation (ORHDC), Vinod Kumar from service on corruption charges. ....