Panaji,  The elections for 186 panchayats in Goa recorded a turnout of 78.70 per cent, officials said on Wednesday.

The counting will be held on August 12.

Ward No 9 from Calangute village will go for fresh polls on Thursday, as authorities were forced to declare the voting void, allegedly

Ahmedabad,  Qamar Mohsin Shaikh, who is a Pakistan-origin woman and currently lives in India after her marriage, has made headlines after she sent Prime Minister Narendra Modi a sacred thread -- 'rakhi' on Raksha Bandhan this year.

She first met Modi nearly 27 years ago in Delhi when the latter a

Patna,  After a long gap, the family of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has come back into the corridors of power in Bihar, and party leaders and workers are jubilant.

While the Lalu Prasad family has been out of power since 2005, it saw a brief resurgence in the first Mahagatbandhan with Nitish Kumar's

New Delhi,   The Congress is going to hit the streets demanding rollback of the Agnipath scheme of short-term recruitment into the armed forces and unemployment after August 15.

Addressing a press conference here, Congrtess MP Deepender Singh Hooda said that while the party extended full support to

New Delhi,  The Income Tax Department has said that they carried out a search operation on a company engaged in mining, sugar manufacturing and liquor business in Madhya Pradesh and Mumbai, and found that it was involved in alleged tax evasion.

The person holding a top position in the business firm also

Srinagar,  Top TRF terrorist commander Lateef Rather, who killed Rahul Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit government employee in May 2022, and who was among the three terrorists eliminated in an encounter in central Kashmir's Budgam district on Wednesday was involved in several terror crime cases, including civilian atrocitie

Lucknow, Lucknow alone has reported 145 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours while Uttar Pradesh reported 940 cases.

Among the new infected cases in Lucknow, four had contracted from people who tested positive for Covid-19 earlier, six had travel history from other states and 38 had influenza-like illness and t

Lucknow,  The Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested 17 persons with 9,000 bottles of an addictive cough syrup near Khalidabad along the state's border with neighbouring Bihar.

Five of the accused, who are residents of state capital Lucknow, were allegedly caught with bottles of cough syrup 'Phensedy

Prayagraj,   In a bizarre incident, two of the three accused in the murder of an elderly couple in Uttar Pradesh have died under mysterious circumstances.

The Prayagraj police had claimed to have cracked the aged couple's murder in Judapur Dandu village on the night of August 1 and arrested a ma

Ayodhya,   Two Dalit sisters were allegedly gang raped by three men after being held captive in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya district.

The victims, one of whom is a minor, have been sent for a medical examination, the police said.

The incident took place when the sisters w