Criticising the Centre over rejection of West Bengal's Republic Day tableau, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), here on Thursday, called it discriminatory and said the state was being targeted for opposing the new citizenship law (CAA) and a proposed nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC).

"This is discriminatory. They

Union Minister Giriraj Singh has said the Bhagwat Geeta should be taught in schools to prevent children from drifting away from the culture and traditional values.

When children go abroad they start eating beef because they were not well versed in their culture and religion, he said speaking at a function. Thus, they should be tau

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday announced that a multidisciplinary expert team of top paediatricians is being sent to Rajasthan's Kota in wake of a spate of deaths of newborns.

"The high-level team being dispatched by @MoHFW_INDIA incl experts from AIIMS Jodhpur, Health Finance & Reg

Akali leader Gurdeep Singh, who is believed to be close to former Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia, was gunned down by unidentified assailants in his home village in Amritsar district on Wednesday night, police said on Thursday.

His wife is sarpanch of Umarpura village.

Singh, who suffered eight gunshot injurie

The BJP on Thursday formally lost control over the only civic body it was running in West Bengal, with the Trinamool Congress members passing a no-confidence motion against Bhatpara Municipality Chairman Sourav Singh.

Amid stringent security, the no-confidence motion was passed with a 19-0 margin at a special session of the munici

Senior Samajwadi Party leader and Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Ram Govind Chaudhary, has announced that when the Samajwadi Party comes to power in Uttar Pradesh, it would confer the award of 'Samvidhan Rakshak' on all those who protested against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

He further said th

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said that he has written a letter to the Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over the deaths of children at Kota in Rajasthan.

"I have written a letter to the Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot requesting him to look into the matter," he said while speaking to mediapersons here.