India

New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Arvind Shrivastava has been appointed Union Revenue Secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Central government on Friday. Shrivastava, a 1994 batch Karnataka...

Shimla: Prabodh Saxena, chief secretary of Himachal Pradesh has landed in the eye of a storm after running up a bill of Rs 1.22 lakh for a private Holi party...

New Delhi: The Central government has banned an anti-cold drug combination for use in children below the age of four. Cough syrups with fixed drug combinations (FDCs) of chlorpheniramine maleate...

New Delhi: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has clarified that there are no attempts being made to introduce a satellite-based tolling system along Indian National Highways anytime...

Bengaluru: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) went knocking on the doors of a man who claimed to have purchased a rare breed of dog for a whopping Rs 50 crore. ED...

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf Bill, Jagdambika Pal, on Friday said he would resign if the panel’s report was found...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that he spoke to Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday and discussed several issues, including collaboration in the fields of technology and...

New Delhi: In a strong diplomatic counter, India on Friday rejected Bangladesh’s criticism of the recent violence in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) called the...

New Delhi: The Bhagavad Gita and Natyashastra have been inscribed in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register — a global initiative that preserves documentary heritage of outstanding value. UNESCO’s Memory...

Hyderabad: A person from Odisha was arrested at Secunderabad railway station while allegedly smuggling 12.318 lakh of ganja worth Rs 6.16 lakh to Maharashtra in trains. The accused has been identified...