New Delhi, Stressing that at the moment he sees no credible force that can take on the BJP or pose a challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former JD-U National General Secretary Pavan Varma says, "The biggest disappointment has been the Congress party's unwillingness and inability to reinvent itself. As far as the

New Delhi, Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday expressed reservations over the content of the syllabus reduced by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and emphasised on the need for children to learn them from authentic sources rather than from "WhatsApp University".

The Centr

Gandhinagar, For the eighth consecutive day of July, Gujarat continued to set record in the number of daily corona cases, as 783 new ones were detected on Wednesday.

Gujarat's total tally reached 38,419 even as its death toll climbed up to 1,995. On the positive side, 569 more patients were discharged, taking

New Delhi, After the controversy broke out over the CBSE's decision to drop topics like citizenship, federalism, secularism etc while reducing the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12 due to Covid-19 pandemic, the education board came up with a detailed clarification on Wednesday, stating that topics claimed to be dropped "are

Hyderabad, Revolutionary balladeer Mohammed Nissar Ahmed, popularly known as Suddala Nissar, who recently penned and sang a folk song to create public awareness about coronavirus, succumbed to the same disease in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

A poet, singer, writer and dancer, Nissar breathed his last at state-run Gandh

Gandhinagar, The Gujarat government, here on Wednesday, said a five-member panel would be set up to authenticate the Scheduled Tribes (ST) certification to Other Backward Class (OBC) communities living in the Gir forest region.

The ST status was granted to many OBC communities, like Rabaari, Bharvad and Charan, li

New Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, here on Wednesday, opened through video link a 500-bed Covid care centre, set up in record six days, at the Commonwealth Games stadium.

To enhance the city's medical infrastructure, the centre has been attached to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital. A team of 8

Bhubaneswar, With the increase of COVID-19 positive cases in Ganjam district, the Odisha administration has sealed its borders and requested the railways to withdraw all train stoppages in the district, said an official on Wednesday.

The Ganjam district administration has sealed the roads bodering Khurda and

New Delhi, The Delhi government's 12-member committee, which is tasked with the responsibility to suggest ways to boost businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday decided to adopt the 'Survive, Revive, Thrive' approach to chart out the roadmap for economic recovery.

The committee held its

New Delhi, In order to allow Ujjwala beneficiaries get their full quota of three cooking gas cylinders free of charge, the government on Wednesday extended the time limit for availing the benefit by three months till September 30.

The decision on the extension was taken by the Union Cabinet which also approved a h