Kolkata,  As the 109th birth anniversary of veteran Marxist and longest serving West Bengal Chief Minister, Late Jyoti Basu was being observed in the Assembly on Friday, the BJP leaders remained conspicuous by their absence.

Slamming the saffron camp for their absence, state Transport Minister and Kolkat

Hyderabad,  The Telangana High Court on Friday refused to quash the FIR registered against rebel MP of Andhra Pradesh's ruling YSR Congress Party, K. Raghu Rama Krishna Raju and his son for alleged kidnap and assault of a policeman.

The court dismissed the petitions filed by the Lok Sabha member from

New Delhi, National General Secretary of the BJP, C.T. Ravi, said that the party is working to expand its base in south India after successfully making its electoral presence felt in the rest the country.

In an exclusive interview with IANS, Ravi, who is also the party's in-charge for Maharashtra, Goa and

New Delhi,  Billions of people, in developed and developing nations, benefit daily from the use of wild species for food, energy, materials, medicine, recreation, inspiration and many other vital contributions to human well-being.

The accelerating global biodiversity crisis, with a million species of pla

Ahmedabad,  Heavy rainfall lashed Ahmedabad on Friday with the city receiving four inches of rain in a span of three hours, the Met Office said.

The Met Department has forecast heavy to very heavy rains in many places of the state for the next five days.

According to the Ahmedabad Municipa

Mumbai,  Taking serious cognisance of the instance of cross-voting in the June MLC biennial elections and absence of 11 legislators during the July 4 vote of confidence by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, the Congress ordered a high-level probe, party sources said here on Friday.

The Congress ha

New Delhi,  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met the newly elected BJP Rajya Sabha members at his official residence here.

It was learnt that the Prime Minister advised the newly elected Rajya Sabha Members to regularly attend the House proceedings, and learn from seniors.

Sources sa

New Delhi,  Twenty-seven newly elected Rajya Sabha members, including Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal, took oath on Friday.

Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Mukul Wasnik, RLD's Jayant Chaudhary and BJP's Surendra Singh Nagar are prominent names among the members who took oath.<

Bhopal,  The Monsoon Session of Madhya Pradesh Assembly, scheduled to start from July 25, is likely to be postponed to August in view of the elections to the posts of chairpersons of rural and urban local bodies.

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Narottam Mishra, on Friday met with the Leader of Opposit

Chandigarh, After an incident in elite Carmel Convent School in Sector 9 in which a student was killed and 16 children were injured due to falling of a heritage peepal tree on Friday, Secretary Social Welfare, Women and Child Development Nitika Pawar directed the Chandigarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights to conduct Ch