President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday paid floral tributes to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 95th birth anniversary at Vajpayee's memorial, Sadaiv Atal, here.

They were followed by numerous Union Ministers and BJP leaders, including L.K. Advani, J.P.

Protesters belonging to the Progressive Front of Goa, on Wednesday, burnt an effigy of Union Minister for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar, accusing him for sacrificing the interests of Goa in favour of Karnataka vis a vis the ongoing inter-state dispute over the waters of the Mhadei river.

"Javadekar and his MoEF ha

A major fire broke out in an oil processing plant in Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district on Wednesday.

According to police, the fire engulfed the plant belonging to Sri Chakra Oils & Extraction Private Limited at Peera Ramachandrapuram village in the Anaparthy block.

Fire tenders rushed to the spot and d

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday recalled the contributions of Madan Mohan Malviya on his birth anniversary.

They said Malviya was a freedom fighter and an educational reformer.

Modi, in a tweet in Hindi, paid tributes to the leader born in 1861.

He said Malviya pl

Uttar Pradesh Police have geared up security apparatus across Ayodhya city on Wednesday after intelligence agencies flagged "possible terror strikes" by Jaish-e-Mohammed operatives.

The intel agencies have told the security establishments that the Pakistan-based terror group chief Masood Azhar has made the call to carry

Even as Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has been campaigning around the world to project India as intolerant of religious minorities, it is Pakistan along with Saudi Arabia, Iran and China that have been redesignated by the US as countries which systematically engage in or tolerate "egregious violations of religious freedom."<

Karnataka's BJP ministers condemned the alleged attack on the convoy of state Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa at Kannur on Tuesday by some activists and blamed the Kerala government for the security lapse.

"We condemn the attack on our Chief Minister's convoy at Kannur by DYFI activists and hold the Kerala government

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday retweeted a picture of Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu visiting the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, exhorting other people to visit the place.

Modi wrote on @narendramodi: "I agree, Mr Vice-President. Good to see Venkaiah Ji enjoying the beauty of Kutch. I hope it inspires you to head to Kut

The Union Home Ministry has issued an order for withdrawing 72 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) or paramilitary forces from newly-created Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir "with immediate effect".

Of the 72 companies being withdrawn, 24 are from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) while 12 each are

Criticising Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), former Maharashtra chief minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said her stand was against the interest of the people who were persecuted due to religious reasons.

Fadnavis, who was in the northern West Bengal tow