Ranchi,  The Jharkhand Assembly on Friday passed two bills related to the domicile policy on reserving 100 per cent government jobs in third and fourth grade for the locals in the state, and increasing Other Backward Classes' (OBC) reservation from 14 to 27 per cent.

The bills were passed by voice vo

Srinagar,  A foreign terrorist, belonging to the JeM and involved in terrorising locals, was killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Friday, officials said.

An army official said based on specific inputs provided by Jammu and Kashmir Police regarding pre

Chennai,  AIADMK leader and former minister, D. Jayakumar has said that the 10 per cent quota for the Economically Weaker Section was against the people and that the DMK was playing double games in the matter.

He said that the 2006 UPA government at the centre of which DMK was part of had constituted the

Bhubaneswar,  Two Maoists were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces inside a forest in Odisha's Koraput district, the police said on Friday.

According to the police, on getting input about the presence of around 15-20 Maoists in the Ramgiri forest area under Boipariguda block of the tri

Chennai,  Welcoming the Supreme Court on Friday freeing all the six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin termed the judgment a "historic foreword to democratic theory".

He said that the judgment underlined the fact that Governors nominated to th

New Delhi,  Keeping in view the fact that the Air Quality Index (AQI) has been showing an increasing trend for the last two days in Delhi-NCR, ongoing actions implemented under Stage III of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) will continue, officials said on Friday.

Wind conditions have not been very

Bengaluru,  Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said with the inauguration of Terminal 2, Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport (KIAL) has become the second largest airport of the country.

Speaking at a function organised to unveil the 108-feet tall bronze statue of Nadaprabhu

Hyderabad,  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has found that some granite companies in Telangana, including those associated with a state minister, have links to Chinese entities owned by Li Wenhuo, whose name surfaced in the Panama Paper leaks.

The ED, which conducted searches at offices and residential

Kolkata,  The leader of opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will soon unilaterally inaugurate six new Centrally-sponsored medical colleges and hospitals in the state, which are supposed to be inaugurated by th

Guwahati,  Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda on Friday said it is the need of the hour to incorporate scientific and technological interventions for the empowerment of the tribal community.

Speaking at a national conclave on 'Science and Technology Empowerment of Tribal Community' in