Shillong: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced Rs 90,000 crore for improving roads and national highways in the Northeast in the next two to three years to facilitate better connectivity.

The prime minister dedicated to the nation a 271-km two-lane national highway connecting Tura in western Meghalaya and

New Delhi: A court here on Saturday sentenced former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda to three years in jail for corruption in a coal block allocation case.

Special Judge Bharat Parashar also sent Koda’s close aide Vijay Joshi, former Coal Secretary H.C. Gupta, Jharkhand’s then Chief Secretary A.K.

The micro-blogging site, Twitter, has rolled out Twitter ‘Moments’ feature to its userbase in India.

Introduced on Friday evening, the new product will allow the Twitterati in India to curate stories by stitching together multiple tweets into a slideshow.

People in India will now be able take their own tweets, fro

Lucknow: Even as various exit polls predicted BJP victory in the Gujarat assembly elections, the AAP on Friday questioned these but said if results on December 18 indeed tallied with the predictions the BJP must have manipulated the EVMs.

“There were massive crowds at rallies of Patidar leader Hardik Patel.

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday approved continuation of the existing Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) scheme till March 2020 with an outlay of Rs 5,300 crore.

The Centre funds 90 per cent of the pool while the states provide the remaining 10 per cent.

New Delhi: Fog shrouded the national capital as mercury dipped, while 11 trains arrived late, one was rescheduled and nine cancelled due to decreased visibility.

The India Meteorological Department report said the minimum temperature in Delhi to be 7 degrees Celsius and maximum temperature as 18 degrees Celsius.

Today, some t

No Assembly constituency anywhere in the country has ever had as many Central Observers as RK Nagar, no far appointed nine Central Observers to monitor the December 21 bypoll , which was countert even Bihar. The Election Commission of India has somanded in April last following unbriddled voter inducement.

“Manvendra Goyal, Commis

Rahul Gandhi today took charge as the president of Congress in the presence of the 132-year-old party’s top brass and his family members.

The Congress’ central election authority (CEA) handed him over the certificate of his elevation to the top post during a grand event held at the lawns of the All