Lucknow, The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, on Monday, directed the state government to follow the 2015 rules for seat reservation in the upcoming panchayat elections.

The High Court bench comprising Justice Rituraj Awasthi and Justice Manish Thakur also directed the state adminis

Pratapgarh (Uttar Pradesh),  Four persons, including a woman, have died after consuming spurious liquor in Pratapgarh district.

Four police personnel, including the Nawabganj police station in-charge, have been suspended following the incident in the Manoharpur Rampur Dabi village in Sangramgarh police c

Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh),  The station house in-charge (SHO) of the Naseerpur police station here, Pravendra Yadav, has been sent to lines after his video in which he is seen celebrating the birthday of a Samajwadi Party worker at the police station went viral on social media.

The Samajwadi Party worker

Chennai,  Ahead of the April 6 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu, the electoral alliance stitched by TTV Dhinakaran with the Muslim organisations -- All India Majlis-e-Itihad Musleemen(AIMIM) and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) -- is with an eye on the Muslim minority vote bank to stay afloat in Tamil Nadu politi

Thiruvananthapuram,  On the expected lines, the various faction managers in the Congress turned out to be the real winners, though top party leaders in Kerala had said that it would be the winnability factor that would count, when the candidate list is decided.

Kerala goes to the polls o

New Delhi, While everybody seems to have been bitten by the travel bug, one particular segment has risen to the occasion in full force -- that of women travellers! Women besides outperforming at work, managing their homes and slaying everywhere in general, are now increasingly turning to solo travel. Not only is solo travel ther

New Delhi, In a major action against the Islamic State (IS) modules, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday carried out searches in at least 10 locations across the country, including one in Delhi.

An NIA source related to the probe said the agency sleuths were carrying out searches at over 10 loca

New Delhi, In a bid to fight misinformation ahead of the Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry, Twitter on Monday launched an information search prompt with the Election Commission of India and State Election Commissions.

The search prompt is designed to make it easy to find c

Patna,  Prominent Kushwaha leader from Bihar -- RLSP's Upendra Kushwaha, whose party merged with Nitish Kumar's JDU, has been rewarded with key post in the Janata Dal United as its national parliamentary board president.

Sources have said that Nitish Kumar created the "national parliamentary

New Delhi,  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked the BJP government over privatisation of airports by commenting on social media: "They don't know how to build but sell."

Gandhi tweeted on Monday afternoon: "#IndiaAgainstPrivatisation which hurts the public and benefits only