In a shocking statement, UP BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh has accused Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of 'funding' violence in Uttar Pradesh.

He alleged that she was 'bringing goons" from other states to foment trouble in the state.

"There was peace in UP for the last three

The much-awaited Lucknow Mahotsav, scheduled to be held from January 17, has been indefinitely postponed due to 'unavoidable circumstances'.

The postponement came barely hours after the district officials held a press conference to release the posters and logo of the Mahotsav, which has been an annual event for the past fo

The Supreme Court on Monday scheduled for March 17 the final hearing on the appeals filed Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi challenging the Delhi High Court order, which allowed the re-assessment of their income tax for 2011-12, in connection with the National Herald case.

A bench of justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Hr

National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partner in Bihar, the Janata Dal-United on Monday condemned the violence in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and described the attack as the cowardly act of the ideologically defeated. It demanded a Supreme Court Judge-led probe into the incident.

The JD-U also accused the Vice Chancellor of bei

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday that his aim is to provide clean and 24-hour water supply to all in the next five years.

Addressing a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) event at the IGI Stadium here, Kejriwal expressed gratitude to DJB officials for providing water in every nook and corner of the city.

He als

Many Indian students are not taking up agricultural studies due to lack of awareness, an Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) official said on Monday at the first-ever Farmers' Science Congress held at the ongoing 107th Indian Science Congress.

"There are a lot of opportunities in agricultural education in India

Having turned the table on the BJP in Maharashtra and installed a Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar could be the opposition's top choice for the Rashtrapati Bhavan in the next presidential elections.

The idea has been floated by Nationalist Congress Party MP Majid Memon who, in a tweet on Monday, said

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said her government would oppose the January 8 strike called by the Central Trade Unions (CTUs) even though it supported the issues they have raised.

The strike has been called by ten CTUs along with various sectoral independent federations and associations demanding scrapping o

India on Monday summoned Pakistan High Commission representative to lodge its protest against the desecration of the birthplace of first Sikh guru at Nankana Sahib and the killing of a Sikh youth in Pakistan.

A Ministry of External Affairs statement said that Pakistan's Charge d'affaires, Syed Haider Shah, was summoned fol

Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday alleged that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR) exercise are part of the RSS-BJP plan to push for a Hindu Rashtra even as the country's economy is sinking.

"The NRC-CAA-NPR exercise is pa