Mumbai, Given the current financial crisis, India needs an economic expert like former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar said here on Sunday.

Pawar recalled how he was a Union minister when Singh was the Finance Minister and the country was passing through a financial

Srinagar, Few motorcycle borne terrorists hurled grenades at a deployment of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) in Chersoo Awantipora in South Kashmir's Pulwama district on Sunday, which did not explode, causing no damage.

Police teams have reached the spot and a search operation has been launched to nab the at

Lucknow, The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has issued new guidelines regarding the beginning of the next academic session in the state universities.

According to an official statement, the admission process to graduation classes will begin from September and classes for first year graduation will sta

New Delhi, The national capital witnessed 1,573 new cases and 37 deaths, raising the coronavirus tally to 1,12,494 and toll to 3,371, according to the Delhi government's daily bulletin, here on Sunday.

On Saturday, Delhi had seen 1,781 new cases. To put things into perspective, just a week before, on July 5, D

New Delhi, Amid the political crisis in Rajasthan, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had a conversation with Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot, claimed sources in the party.

"Pilot had a conversation with former party chief Rahul Gandhi over the political crisis in the state, source claimed.

New Delhi, With economic activities coming to a halt amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown, the Indian economy is expected to record a negative 4.5 per cent growth rate in the current financial year, according to the FICCI's Economic Outlook Survey.

The minimum and maximum growth estimate stood at (-) 6.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu Police on Sunday arrested DMK lawmaker representing Thiruporur, L. Idhayavarman, in connection with shooting at an AMMK party worker over a land dispute.

According to police, on late Saturday, Idhayavarman's father Lakshmipathi fired three rounds after he and his supporters were attacked by

New Delhi, The National Commission for Women (NCW) has written to the Gujarat Police, seeking action against a man who gave open rape threat to a female comedian.

In its letter written to Gujarat DGP Shivanand Jha, the NCW chairperson said, "NCW is committed to create safe online space for women and ensure cy

New Delhi, The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Delhi) on Sunday said it has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model for drug repositioning in the treatment of Covid-19.

This means that instead of manually going through ever available drug and checking its effectiveness against Covid-

Bengaluru,  The police and the rescue teams are yet trace a six-year-old girl suspected to have been washed away in the city's Bellandur drain, an official said on Sunday.

"We are yet to find a trace of the girl who is suspected to have fallen in the Bellandur drain," a police officer told IANS.