New Delhi, While the Election Commission (EC) is yet to decide on holding the assembly elections in the five poll-bound states amid the rising cases of Covid, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Wednesday said the BJP is prepared to hold virtual rallies.

Talking to the media, Shekhawat said that EC will dec

Belagavi (Karnataka),  Tamil Nadu BJP chief and former IPS officer K. Annamalai on Wednesday recorded his statement in a murder case against underworld don Bannanje Raja in a special court in Karnataka's Belgavi.

Annamalai was a witness in the case, being heard by the Special Karnataka Control of Org

Mumbai,  A staffer of State Bank of India was shot dead when he attempted to foil a daylight heist at its Dahisar branch and the two robbers grabbed around Rs 2.50 lakh and fled, police said.

According to the MHB Colony Police, the incident occurred just after 3.30 p.m. when the staffer, Sandesh Gomare, 25, w

New Delhi, Like in West Bengal, the Centre has accorded 'Z' category security cover to Punjab politician and former Congress leader Rana Gurjit Singh Sodhi after he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Sodhi, who joined the BJP on December 21, will be getting this security cover both in Delhi and Punjab by the Central Rese

Agartala, Protests that began on Tuesday in Tripura after the announcement of candidates selected for recruitment to various posts including riflemen in the Tripura State Rifles (TSR), continued on Wednesday as individuals whose name did not appear in the list of selected ones attacked the BJP offices in different parts of the s

Patna,  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar lost his cool during a Samaj Sudhar Abhiyan (social reforms campaign) rally in Muzaffarpur on Wednesday.

When the Chief Minister was addressing the rally on the campus of Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, some people created a ruckus, which attracted the atten

Chennai,  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to advise the Ministry of Home Affairs to release the Central assistance towards rain-related losses suffered in the state.

Stalin, in a letter to Modi, said the northeast monsoon rains and floods damaged

Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday felicitated badminton player Kidambi Srikanth who created history as the first Indian male shuttler to reach the finals of the World Championship. Apart from a cash award of Rs 7 lakh, Srikanth has also been allotted five acres of land at Tirupati to esta

New Delhi, Highlighting the opportunities for higher education institutions to play a key role in innovation and the start-up ecosystem, Union Minister of State for Education Dr Subhas Sarkar on Wednesday said it could bring a revolution not only at the economic level but also on the social and environmental front.
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New Delhi,  Under Phase-2 of the nationwide Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), 25,000 villages have declared themselves Open Defecation Free (ODF).

In a tweet, the SBM team said that villages across India are working actively to ensure safe sanitation, solid and liquid waste management arrangements and visual