In a major security lapse, the chopper carrying Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was on Tuesday forced to land on a field instead of the makeshift helipad at a school here.

The chief minister was, however, safe and proceeded for the scheduled programmes, Principal Secretary (Home) Arvind Kumar said in Lucknow.

Aadhaar card is not mandatory for central government employees to get their pension, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh has said. In the 30th meeting of the Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies here recently, he said Aadhaar is an additional facility to enable the use of technology for submission of life certificate without

As the BJP looks all set to form a new government in Karnataka, its dominance down south has just started. And next in the BJP’s plans could be the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

According to the latest trends, in Hyderabad-Karnataka region, which has 31 seats, the BJP is looking to bag 15 seats in their kitty. This

Reports say the Congress has approached JDS to cobble together an alliance if the BJP fails to reach the halfway mark. The JDS has accepted the Congress party's offer that HD Kumaraswamy be the CM candidate, say reports.

Reports say that Sonia Gandhi and Ghulam Nabi Azad have spoken to JDS chief Deve Gowda.