Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh's Anti-Corruption Bureau on Friday arrested former minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLA K.Atchannaidu in connection with his alleged involvement in the ESI scam.

The member of State Legislative Assembly was taken into custody from his house in Nimmada village in Srikakulam distri

Prayagraj, Former Uttar Pradesh Minister and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar and 65 others have been booked for violating lockdown restrictions here, police said on Friday.

Among other leaders booked were Janadhikar Party chief Babu Singh Kushwaha, Apna Dal chief Krishna Patel, Bharti

Lucknow,  A retired IAS officer, Surya Pratap Singh, has been booked for allegedly posting 'misinformation' on a social media platform relating government efforts to deal with the Covid-19 situation.

The case was registered with Hazratganj police station on Thursday night on the complaint filed b

Mumbai, An innocuous order banning pesticides at the height of the lockdown has ignited an unholy row between two powerful and key central ministries, confounding bureaucratic, political, corporate and farming circles alike, official sources said.

On May 18, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare issued a

New Delhi After 71 armed forces veterans issued a strong statement against former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, questioning his "motivation" for making a controversial statement on Chinese incursion, the Congress has questioned the bonafide of such people and demanded that they should show their affiliation.

Gandhinagar, Gujarat saw the highest number of positive coronavirus cases in a single day -- 513 -- on Thursday, taking the state's total number of cases to 22,067, while there were 38 more fatalities, taking the total death toll to 1,385.

The 513 cases were detected from 6,520 RT-PCR tests carried out on Thur

Amaravati, Three lawyers resigned as Andhra Pradesh government pleaders in the state High Court on Thursday and their replacements were also announced.

Penumaka Venkat Rao, Gaddam Satish Babu and Habeen Sheik submitted their resignations.

It was not clear if they resigned on their own or the governm

New Delhi, A restaurant in Rajouri Garden, which hosted a birthday party flouting social distancing norms and served ‘Hookah to the guests, has been served closure notice by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

The closure notice has been served by the health officials of the civic body, which asked to close

Srinagar,  If Srinagar Mayor, Junaid Azim Mattu, survives the no confidence motion brought against him by his opponents, Mattu would get a second lease of life as the city's top elected functionary.

Mattu had survived a no confidence motion against him on December 26, 2019.

Srinagar municip

Guwahati, The state-owned Oil India Ltd (OIL) lost 467 MT of crude oil production from 59 producing wells due to blockades by the local people and various students' organisations in two districts of Assam, an OIL release said on Thursday.

The OIL release said that as the firefighters, the NDRF and engineers in