West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday clarified that she had on Tuesday said migrants from East Paskistan or Bangladesh to India were Indian citizens in the spirit of the Liaquat-Nehru Pact of 1950 and Indira-Mujib Treaty of 1972 and warned the media she would take legal action if her words were adistorted.

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A meeting of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana will be held here in connection with the linking of inter-state rivers Godavari and Cauvery, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami said on Wednesday.

Speaking at a function in Salem, he said his Andhra counterpart Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy has agreed for a mee

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister P.K. Mishra on Wednesday chaired a crucial meeting callled to discuss ways to combat the deadly coronavirus, where it was decided to introduce universal screening at all international airports of the country.

Wednesday's meeting was attended by the Cabinet Secretary, Foreign Secretary,

The government on Wednesday said the Indian Railways have taken up 498 projects of 49,069 km length estimated at Rs 6.75 lakh crore, out of which commissioning of 8,979 km has been achieved and an expenditure of Rs 1.53 lakh crore incurred up to March 2019.

Railway and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal in a written reply to a questio

Taking note of the large number of missing children in the Panipat district, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said in the Assembly, here on Wednesday, he would request the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate the matter.

"The SIT (special investigating team) was probing the case. Now I will write to the CBI to i

At least 23 colleagues of a woman software engineer, suspected to be Covid-19 positive, were advised home isolation for two weeks, health officials said on Wednesday.

The woman's husband working for another company will also remain in self-isolation. However, officials said other employees in the two companies or other firms n

Coronavirus scare has forced the BJP to be postpone its pro-CAA rally which was scheduled to be addressed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah here on March 15.

The Bharatiya Janata Party's Telangana unit on Wednesday announced that the rally in support of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) stand postponed.

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited violence-hit areas of northeast Delhi on Wednesday evening, saying the violence in the capital had hurt the country's reputation in the world.

Gandhi arrived in Brijpuri area where miscreants set fire to and vandalised a school. On reaching Arun Public School, Gandhi said, "This school

In a huge victory for the security forces, dreaded Maoist Dinkar Gota - who masterminded the deadly Kurkheda attacks which killed 15 security personnel and one civilian in a mine-blast on May 1, 2019 - was nabbed in a police operation in this ultra-left rebel affected Maharashtra district on Wednesday.

Besides Gota, his partner an

The Supreme Court on Wednesday termed the Reserve Bank of India's ban on dealing in cryptocurrency, virtual currencies such as Bitcoin "unjustified" and "knee-jerk reaction".

This is a major development for the cryptocurrency sector, as the RBI ban, through a 2018 circular, restricted lenders from banking t