Kanpur, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur will set up the department of sustainable energy engineering to contribute to the nation's growing clean and renewable energy sector.

IIT-K Director Prof Abhay Karandikar said that the Board of Governors had given its approval for the same.

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Srinagar, Four civilians were injured on Wednesday in a grenade attack by militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district.

Police sources said militants targeted a vehicle of the security forces in the Singhpora area of Srinagar-Baramulla highway.

"The grenade missed the target and expl

Gandhinagar, The opposition Congress in Gujarat has claimed that Tuesday's Bharat Bandh in support of the agitating farmers was successful throughout the country as also in Gujarat.

While the ruling BJP in Gujarat has claimed the Bandh was a failure in the state, the Congress said that the Bandh had a "hu

Jammu, State Election Commissioner K.K. Sharma said on Tuesday that 63.08 per cent and 59.71 per cent voter turnout was recorded on Monday in the fourth phase of Panch and Sarpanch bypolls in Jammu & Kashmir.

Sharma said that bypolls for vacant Panch seats were held in 215 constituencies in the fourth phase. A

Gandhinagar, Gujarat on Tuesday saw 1,325 new Covid cases, taking its tally to 2,21,493, while the death toll climbed to 4,110, with 15 more succumbing.

In December so far, the state has added 11,713 cases at an average of 1,464 daily.

A total of 1,531 patients were discharged, taking the total to 2

Shillong, The Border Security Force (BSF) troopers on Tuesday seized 58 country made boats carrying 45,000 kg of dry peas in Meghalaya along the India-Bangladesh border, officials said.

Valued at Rs 68 lakh, the dry peas were contained in plastic bags and were being illegally traded from Bangladesh to India.

Bengaluru, Launching a blistering attack on the opposition Congress, Communist parties and farmers' unions in Karnataka, BJP national general secretary in-charge of Maharashtra and Tami Nadu, C.T. Ravi, on Tuesday dared both the parties to answer publicly why they were insisting that farmers should sell their products in mar

Hyderabad, Riding high on the success in Hyderabad civic polls and the Dubbaka by-election in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh BJP leaders met with the leaders of their local ally, Janasena, in 'Bhagyanagar' on Tuesday to fine tune their strategy for Andhra Pradesh.

"A joint meeting between the state BJP and

Bengaluru, Hundreds of farmers resorted to flash protests on the busy roads near the Mourya Junction Anand Rao circle in the city on Tuesday in opposition to the passage of the Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Act 2020, which threw traffic out of gear for quite some time.

Various farmers' unions staged flash

New Delhi, The meeting between a delegation of farmers' leaders and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday failed to reach any agreement, as the government refused outright to repeal the three farm laws and only offered amendments, according to a participant.

All India Kisan Sabha leader Hannan Mollah said t