Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday played down the privilege motion filed against him by Bharatiya Janata Party's Rajya Sabha member G.V.L. Narasimha Rao in the upper house of the Parliament.

Rao filed the motion against Vijayan after hearing that the Kerala Assembly had passed a resolution moved by him agains

As Indian Space Research Organisation chief K Sivan on Wednesday revealed that the government had given the go-ahead to the third lunar mission, Twitterati tweeted congratulatory messages, with quite a few posting memes and funny comments.

#Chandrayaan3 trended with 2,501 tweets.

BJP leader Baijayant Jay Panda tweet

In what is seen as the first major huddle of the Modi government in 2020, the first meeting of the Council of Ministers this year has been called for January 3.

The meeting is scheduled to take place at the Pravasi Bharatiya Bhavan from 5.30 p.m.

With economic woes persisting and leading to the hike of railway fares

One person has been arrested for posting a derogatory remark against Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on the social media.

Ritesh Barnwal was arrested by the Cantt police after Congress leaders submitted a written complaint against him on Monday.

Congress district President Nirmala Paswan met Senior

Several protesters including students from different universities gathered at India Gate on Wednesday to take a mass pledge to oppose the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The protesters also read out the Preamble of the Constitution with the pledge to show their faith in it.

"We young India resolve to fight bac

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday said "the entire country knows which party has the mastery to fuel riots", while countering BJP's allegation that the violence on the Citizenship Amendment Act issue was spread by the city's ruling AAP and its MLA.

Earlier, in the day, Union Minister Prakash

In its first major administration reshuffle in the New Year, the Yogi Adityanath government, on Wednesday, transferred 22 IAS and 28 PCS officers.

Prominent officers transferred include health and family welfare secretary Pankaj Kumar who has been appointed as the principal staff officer to the chief secretary.

IAS

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) headed by Asaduddin Owaisi plans to organize a march in Hyderabad against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on January 4 or 5.

The Hyderabad MP has sought police permission for the march, proposing three possible routes.

Owaisi tweeted on Wednesday that he made an app

The Indian Army and China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) held ceremonial Border Personnel Meetings on the occasion of New Year at Chushul–Moldo and DBO-TWD meeting points in eastern Ladakh.

The Indian delegation were led by Brigadier H.S. Gill and Colonel Manoj Kumar, while Senior Col Bai Min and Lt Col Lee Ming Ju

The new year 2020 will usher in several new rules for financial transactions cutting across debit cards, PAN cards, withdrawal of cash from ATMs and online transfers.

From January 1, all old debit and ATM cards with a magnetic stripe will cease to work.

This can be replaced with a new EMV chip debit card from the ba