Twitter users on Wednesday hailed the news about Sundar Pichai henceforth helming Alphabet, the parent company of Google, as well and posted congratulatory messages.

#SundarPichai trended with 2,688 tweets, with #Alphabet garnering 3,954 tweets.

Pichai wrote on @sundarpichai: "I'm excited about Alphabet'

Even as high onion prices continued to make consumers teary-eyed, Twitter users on Wednesday had fun over an old tweet by BJP leader Smriti Irani.

One user posted Irani's tweet from December 2010, when her party was in the opposition, and wrote: "Old tweets are so funny." Irani's tweet on @smritiirani read: "

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday launched Mission Suvidya to ensure quality norms in basic facilities in ST-SC Development Department hostels.

It will ensure facilities such as safe building, functional toilets, safe drinking water, proper kitchen and dining in the hostels.

The ST-SC Development Dep

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday urged the Centre in the Lok Sabha to support Kerala government for completing Nanjangud-Wayanad-Nilambur railway line project, citing new opportunities for people in his parliamentary constituency.

Gandhi, MP from Kerala's Wayanad constituency, raised the issue during zero hour in the

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh to have interactive session with corporate who's who at the two-day Punjab Progressive Investors Summit, starting on Thursday with focus on putting the state's MSME sector on the centrestage of the global value chain.

The Chief Minister's session on 'Blueprint for accelerating

The Indian Army's Sudarshan Chakra Corps conducted the Sindhu Sudarshan exercise in the deserts of Rajasthan from last November 28 to December 4 said Defence Rajasthan PRO Colonel Sombit Ghosh said here on Wednesday.

Southern Command commander Lt. General S.K. Saini reviewed the exercise on December 2-3 at an unspecified locat

The Resident Doctors Association (RDA) of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday warned the institute's administration against hiking the tuition fee and raising user charges for patients.

Speaking with IANS, Amarinder Singh Malhi, president of the RDA, said that the association opposes the proposed h

Four persons, including a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan and the son of a retired jailor, have been arrested for allegedly abducting a class 10 student and then gang-raping her at a deserted place.

The car in which the girl was taken had a police logo on it.

Inspector of Halia police station, Deviver Shuk

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday accepted in the Lok Sabha that transgressions occur from both sides on the India-China border on many occasions but clarified that it happens only because of "perceptional differences" between the two countries on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

However, the minister sa