The Government on Saturday raised excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 3 per litre, the highest in five years, taking advantage of the low global oil prices to boost its coffers.

However, it spared consumers from any immediate increase in retail price of the two auto fuels that may be adjusted later keeping any increase to the m

The Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh will identify and renovate all old as well as dilapidated temples in the state, official sources said on Friday.

The sources said the process to identify such temples is already underway and, if needed, the state could seek the assistance of Archaeological Survey of India.

The so

National Conference President and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah met with his son Omar Abdullah on Saturday at Hari Nivas, a day after the Public Safety Act (PSA) was revoked against him.

This is for the first time father-son duo met after the revocation of Artcile 370 on August 5.

Farooq wa

Agra district authorities have managed to trace back a suspected case of coronavirus who fled from her Bengaluru home.

The 25-year-old woman from Bangaluru was traced at her home in railway colony here on Friday.

Her father had told health officials that she had taken a train to New Delhi.

Her disappe

Six people are in isolation in hospital while 1,977 are under home surveillance among the 2,56,682 people screened in West Bengal since the global outbreak of coronavirus. No one has tested positive for the fatal disease in the state so far, according to a health department official.

Of the half-a-dozen patients hospitalised with

Delhi Finance Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday said COVID-19 is not just a health crisis but is going to cause the most dangerous economic crisis in the world, urging the GST Council to discuss and take steps to avoid system failure.

"Corona is not only a health crisis. It's going to be (the) most dangerous economic cr

Police have arrested a man who allegedly used a matrimonial website to befriend and rape a woman after luring her on the pretext of marriage.

Defence Colony Police On Saturday informed IANS, " The victim, a resident of Delhi's Defence Colony, has filed a complaint in this regard. According to the complaint, the 28-year-ol

Tainted Jammu and Kashmir DSP Davinder Singh has been brought to Delhi and will be produced in the court on Saturday in a Delhi related case, sources said.

According to sources, a team of Delhi police was in Jammu earlier to bring Singh to Delhi. He is currently detained in Kathua jail at Heeranagar, Jammu.

On Janua

As police continue to interrogate Salman, one of the accused in Delhi violence, it is learnt that the Delhi Police Special Cell was secretly listening to the mobile phone conversation between suspects Musa and Salman, residents of Chand Bagh area, during the riots.


The Delhi Police Special Cell and Special Branch (Intellig

The West Bengal government on Saturday shut all educational institutions from March 16 to 31 as part of precautionary measures to check the spread of the Novel Corona Virus infection.

Meanwhile, Six people are in isolation in hospital while 1,977 are under home surveillance among the 2,56,682 people screened in West Bengal since t