Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday that since he is not the party chief, he is not the deciding authority on the ticket distribution in the party.

"I am not the party president and I am not taking decisions on Rajya Sabha nominees," said Rahul when asked if he was sending "his team" to the Rajya Sabh

The government is clearing the decks for filling up more than 4,75,000 government vacancies, Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

In a written reply to a query, the Minister informed that during 2019-20, three recruiting agencies namely, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Staff Sele

The choice of Amrendradhari Singh as one of the two Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidates from Bihar for the coming Rajya Sabha elections has surprised many since his name was unheard of in political circles, unlikely the second candidate Premchand Gupta.

As Amrendradhari Singh's candidature was announced by the opposition par

A day after Congress loyalist Jyotiraditya Scindia joined the BJP, the ruling party MP Uday Pratap Singh on Thursday called his exit an "internal failure" of Congress and suggested that the party should "rather introspect than make allegations."

"Congress is a party which is run by a family... this is know

A Bangladeshi cargo vessel carrying fly ash sank in the Hooghly river after colliding with a Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) ship on Thursday, officials said.

All 13 crew members of the Bangladeshi ship Mamatamoyee Maa -- which was returning home with the load from a CESC thermal power plant -- were rescued, though one of them sustained

Even as Congress interim Chief Sonia Gandhi is set to take a call on the Rajya Sabha nominees of the Congress from Haryana, former Lok Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda has brought his 24 MLAs to the national capital to build pressure on the party leadership for the upper house berth.

Hooda junior, who is the son of former Chief Mini

A Delhi court has sent Popular Front of India (PFI) Delhi Chief Parvez Ahmed and Secretary Mohammad Iliyas to 7-day custody of the Special Cell of Delhi Police.

The duo were produced before Additional Chief Metropolitian Magistrate Purshottam Pathak who sent them to police custody.

The Delhi Police Special Cell arre

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday said that the state authorities were fully prepared to tackle coronavirus threat.

Sawant said that all precautions were taken and suspected cases at airport and inter-state borders were referred to apex medical college hospital here.

So far, four suspected cases have test

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was passed by voice vote in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. It was passed in Lok Sabha on March 6.

The amendments are aimed at streamlining the insolvency resolution process and to protect last-mile funding and boost investment in financially-distressed sectors.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath got a POCSO accused arrested from his 'Janata Darshan' at the Gorakhnath temple on Wednesday.

According to reports, the chief minister was listening to people's complaints at the temple complex when one Ram Narain Gupta came to the chief minister and told him that the Gulehr