Lucknow,  The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court (HC) has permitted the withdrawal of a criminal case lodged against Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Health, Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh in 2007 for an alleged attempt to murder and other charges.

The court said that once the state government expressed

Nagpur,  Five villages were inundated with toxic fly ash slurry and a river from where Nagpur draws drinking water was contaminated after a fly ash bund of Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS), near Nagpur suffered a breach owing to heavy rainfall.

The fly ash slurry pond near Khasala village damaged larg

Jaipur, Chief Justice of India Justice N.V. Ramana on Saturday expressed his concern over the decline in legislative performance and passing of bills without debates.

"The country is witnessing a decline in the quality of legislative performance. We have a form of government where the executive is accoun

Guwahati,  The Assam government has started providing textbook grants to more than 1.1 lakh flood-affected students and Rs 10.15 crore has been earmarked for the purpose, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced.

Sarma on Saturday tweeted: "In our humble effort to provide relief to students

Chennai,  A question in the second semester MA exam of Periyar University, seeking to know "the lowest caste" in Tamil Nadu has sparked a major controversy in the state.

The varsity has said that it will set up an enquiry committee to look up into the matter.

The question was und

Kolkata/Jaipur, When West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was announced as the surprise choice of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the office of the Vice President, political observers in Kolkata, where he has spent the last three years engaged in an almost daily sparring match with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee