Polling in the second and final phase of the rural local body polls in Tamil Nadu began on Monday at 7 a.m.

A total of 158 Panchayat Unions are going to on Monday and security has been beefed up in those polling localities.

About 1.28 crore voters are expected to exercise their democratic right on December 30 to ele

With more and more Indians taking the online route to fulfill their shopping needs, e-tailers like Amazon and Flipkart are witnessing high demands, including from far-flung and remote areas, but overall slowdown and negative sentiments - coupled with the new ecommerce policy and the likely entry of Reliance into the ecommerce space soon -- may s

As President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday presented Amitabh Bachchan with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for outstanding contribution to the film industry, Twitterati tweeted congratulatory messages to the Bollywood superstar.

President Kovind presented Dadasaheb Phalke Aw

As Hemant Soren took oath as the 11th Chief Minister of Jharkhand amid the Opposition's show of strength in Ranchi on Sunday, several Congress leaders took to Twitter to congratulate him.

#HemantSoren started trending after the swearing-in ceremony at Morabadi ground at 2 p.m. with almost 3,000 tweets.

Congress

In a move seen as a further indication of the government's intentions to appoint Gen. Bipin Rawat as India's first Chief of Defence Staff, the Defence Ministry has amended rules of service and tenure in the Army Rules, 1954.

In its notification dated December 28, the Ministry has stated that Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) or

In the backdrop of violence that broke out in various parts of the country during National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Sunday that violence and democracy do not go together.

"Dissent has to be expressed in a peaceful manner," he said

Exactly 32 days after he was sworn-in on November 28, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is all set to expand his council of ministers, here on Monday.

Since past two weeks, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders comprising Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress have held a series of meetings to finalise the Cabinet expansion plans.

If Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan is unable to confine himself to the constitutional duties and responsibilities, then it's best he returns to full time politics, Kerala's ruling CPI-M said on Sunday.

In a statement here, state CPI-M Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said that Khan had time and again breached his brief a

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Sunday, met the family of party worker and social activist Sadaf Zafar who was arrested while protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Priyanka met Sadaf's children and other family members after returning from Rae Bareli.

She took to the Twitte

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Sunday slammed the Meerut Superintendent of Police (SP) for his alleged statement in a viral video and said that his conduct was 'condemnable and unfortunate'.

She said in a tweet that, "Muslims living in the country including Uttar Pradesh for years are Indians, not Pak