The Hemant Soren government in Jharkhand on Tuesday presented its first budget in the state Assembly and announced farm loan waiver of up to Rs 50,000 and 100-unit free power besides stating that all residents will be covered under medical treatment for up to Rs 5 lakh.

Jharkhand Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon tabled the budget

A week after the deadly anti-CAA riots in Delhi, the Congress has charged the Delhi government with looking the other way during the riots.

Congress leader Ajay Maken said raised questions about the conduct of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as he alleged that even the government hospitals are not well equipped.

Farmers in Jaipur's Nindad village are staging a protest against the acquisition of their land by the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA), demanding new prices for their land as per the law passed in 2013.

The 'Bhoomi Samadhi Satyagrah' against the land acquisition is led by Nagendra Singh Shekhawat under the banner of

India on Tuesday summoned Iran's envoy in the capital to register its protest against Iranian Foreign Minister's scathing comments on the recent communal riots in Delhi over Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The recently enacted law, CAA fast tracks citizenship of persecuted religious minorities of three Islamic theocratic

Various forms of cancer claimed 5,727 lives in Maharashtra out of the total 11,306 new cases that were registered in 2019, the state Legislature was told on Tuesday.

Health Minister Rajesh Tope gave the information in reply to a a question by Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council, Pravin Darekar, Niranjan Davkhare and ot

The opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front in Tripura on Tuesday said that the prevailing situation in the BJP-ruled state is worse than the 1975 emergency period in India.

CPI-M Tripura state Secretary Gautam Das said that total lawlessness, thousands of attacks on women, opposition party leaders and workers

Just like Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath enacted laws to make rioters pay for damage to public property, the Gujarat government too on Tuesday announced that rioters will be made to cough up money for damage to public property.

"Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has instructed the administration to scrutinize

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asserted on Tuesday that the government is ready to debate on the Delhi violence on March 11, a day after Holi.

Reasoning the choice of the date, Prasad told the media: "It should be our common effort to ensure amity, understanding and peace in Delhi. Peace has returned to Delhi today. Normalc

A court here on Tuesday order framing of charges against 15 people for allegedly trying to establish a "caliphate" in the country in association with terror outfit IS.

The accused had extensively used internet and social networking sites to identify members for the Middle East based terror outfit, facilitate recruitment

A court in Jharkhand on Tuesday awarded the death penalty to three men convicted for their involvement in the rape and murder of a 6-year-old minor girl. The court's verdict has come just 28 days after the incident.

Dumka district court judge Taufikul Hassan convicted the three -- Mithu Rai, Pankaj and Ashok Rai, and awarded t