New Delhi,  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday approved grant of ex gratia from the PMNRF for the kin of 29 persons who died as well as nine other injured in two road accidents in Maharashtra's Jalgaon and Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool districts.

The Prime Minister's Office tw

New Delhi, Amid involvement of environmental activists in the ongoing protests against the new farm laws, it is important to understand the impact of these laws on the environment as the government claims agricultural reforms will bring about a revolutionary change in the lives of India's small and marginal farmers.
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Mumbai,  Mumbai-based lawyer-activist Nikita Jacob on Monday moved the Bombay High Court for anticipatory bail after a Delhi court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against her.

The Delhi court's warrant came in the case involving the 'toolkit' shared by teenage global climate campaigner G

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Centre on a PIL by NGO Common Cause challenging the November 13, 2020 order which retrospectively amended the tenure of the present Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director, Sanjay Kumar Mishra.

A bench comprising Justices Nageswara Rao and Justice Ravindra

New Delhi, In view of the growing menace of drug trafficking in the country, the Central government is planning to "redesign" the "governance architecture" of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) - India's specialised anti-drug trafficking wing.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is dealing with th

New Delhi,  Elaborating on the 'Toolkit' investigation, the Delhi Police on Monday said that on January 11, Nikita and Shantanu attended a virtual Zoom meeting organised by the Poetic Justice Foundation in which the modalities of the 'Global Day of Action' were worked out and based on the course of acti

Bijnor, Congress National General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, while addressing a 'Kisan Panchayat' in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district on Monday, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi can visit America, China and Pakistan but cannot meet the farmers sitting in New Delhi.

Priyanka launched a scathi

New Delhi,  The air quality index (AQI) in Delhi was in the 'very poor' category on Friday with a reading of 331. According to Safar India, the overall Delhi air quality is in the lower end of the very poor category as forecasted.

"Surface winds are low and they are likely t

Guwahati, The opposition Congress in Assam on Saturday strongly condemned the transfer of two black panthers from the Assam State Zoo to a private zoo in Gujarat.

According to the zoo officials in Guwahati, Assam is the only breeding centre for black panthers in the country. The Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical

Beijing,  Beijing has continued to witness heavy air pollution, which started last week before the Chinese New Year.

Data registered at 10 a.m. on Saturday showed the city's air quality index had reached the level of heavy pollution, with the PM 2.5 concentration in the city's urban areas hitting 239