The Congress on Monday said the Central government should call an all-party meeting on the coronavirus situation and also look into the "partial functioning" of Parliament.

"This should be decided in the all-party meeting if there is any merit in adjourning Parliament and/ or partial functioning. There should be no

No positive coronavirus (Covid-19) case has surfaced in the eight northeastern states so far, Tripura Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar said on Monday referring to various government reports.

Kumar said that though no positive case has been found in the northeastern region till now, utmost alertness is being maintained and a close vigil

Amid the high voltage political drama in Madhya Pradesh over the crucial floor test in the state Assembly, the BJP is again set to fly all its legislators to Haryana's Gurugram to avoid 'reverse poaching'.

A senior BJP leader said that the party is flying all its 106 MLAs to Delhi and then they will be kept at a hotel

In an unprecedented move, the Maharashtra government has decided to 'tag' all those people who have been sent to 100 per cent 'home quarantine' in view of the coronavirus pandemic, here on Monday.

Accordingly, the left hand of all persons shunted to 100 per cent home-quarantine will be 'stamped' to identify

The Budget Session of the Delhi Assembly will begin from March 23, the Assembly said on Monday.

The Budget Session of the Assembly begins with an address of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal.

It will be the third part of the first session of the Delhi Assembly and the first Budget of Arvind Kejriwal 3.0.

Setting at rest all speculations, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday made it clear he would definitely contest the next Assembly elections in the state.

"I'm still quite young. Do you think I'm too old to fight the polls?" he quipped in a lighter tone, in response to a question during the press confe

A court here on Monday sent suspended Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain to four-day police custody in connection with the murder of an Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer during the recent violence in northeast Delhi.

"I find force in the submissions of the investigating officer that to unearth the conspiracy of the

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday announced in the state Assembly that schools, colleges, coaching centres, shopping malls and cinema halls would remain closed till April 14 in the state in the wake of the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in the country.

"Educational institutions, hostels, cinema halls, malls, sw

The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the Central Sanskrit Universities Bill by voice vote, paving the way for converting three deemed varsities into central Sanskrit universities.

The Lok Sabha had passed the bill on December 11, 2019.

The three deemed varsities to be converted into central Sanskrit universities are Ras

The contest for 55 seats in the Rajya Sabha is tilting in favour of the BJP except in Haryana where there will be no election as no extra candidate has been fielded by the BJP.


The BJP has fielded extra candidates in Gujarat, the home turf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, in Rajasthan and in Mad