India is keeping a close watch on the developing US-Iran geo-political tensions and its consequential impact on the oil prices, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday.

India as a major consumer of crude oil is keeping a tab on the situation which has developed as the US-Iran crisis deepened on Wednesday, sai

With farmers suicides unabated in 2019, a farm-panel has mooted the setting of India's first-ever rights commission to address the ongoing crises in the farmlands and make the state "farmers suicide-free within five years", according to a top activist.

"We have proposed to set up a 'Maharashtra Farmers'

DMK leader Kanimozhi, on Wednesday, visited JNU campus and criticised vice chancellor Jagadesh Kumar for not meeting students who were attacked by masked mob on January 5.

"The VC has not come to meet any of the students nor has he tried to reach out to any students who are protesting. He doesn't have time to meet student

The police in the newly formed Union territory of Ladakh have urged the admins running whatsApp groups to register themselves at the police stations in the twin districts of Leh and Kargil.

The police released a statement which said: "These days people are using social media as a means of instigating by circulating texts and

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to Adani Enterprises on an appeal by Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in a matter connected with the alleged over-invoicing of Indonesian coal imports.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde stayed the Bombay High Court order that quashed letter rogatories (LR) which sought

A 32-year-old lawyer was beaten to death by five persons in the Damodar Nagar area in the state capital, police said.

The incident happened late on Tuesday night.

The lawyer, Shishir Tripathi, was beaten with bricks, rods and stones.

One of the accused Vinayak Thakur, also a lawyer, has been arrested

Former People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader and senior politician Altaf Bukhari has said Jammu and Kashmir cannot perpetually 'mourn' the abrogation of Article 370.

In an exclusive interview with IANS, Bukhari said the time has come to look beyond Article 370 and explore other achievable options for Jammu and Kashmir

After Sunday's violence in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the Vice Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar met with the Secretary Amit Khare and Joint Secretary G.C. Hosur of Ministry of Human Resource Development, on Wednesday morning.

Kumar briefed MHRD officials on the steps taken to bring normalcy back in the JNU campus.

In a run up to the Delhi Assembly elections, the Congress has commissioned four surveys to select the candidates for the 70 seats.

As per the sources, the fate of the ticket seekers will depend upon the survey findings.

Sources said that three surveys have been commissioned by the Congress central command and one by

After opposing each and every investors meet held during the time of the Congress-led UDF government in the past, the present CPI-M-led Pinarayi Vijayan government's attempt to conduct one starting Thursday at Kochi is nothing but an eyewash and a fraud, said the Congress-led opposition in Kerala.

The two-day investors meet, o