In a major rejig, the Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday appointed former Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana F. Patole as the new Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President, an announcement said here. ....

Amid the Opposition's continuous attack on the government in Parliament over the farmers protests, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar on Friday said that as per the Centre's three new farm laws, the farmers can terminate their contract at any time and can withdraw from their agreement without any penalty. ....

Sixty four people belonging to the Sindhi community of Pakistan and residing in Indore have finally received Indian citizenship certificates. ....

The Central government has informed the Rajya Sabha about the number of Indian citizens jailed in foreign countries for various criminal offences. ....

Former chief minister and state Congress chief Kamal Nath on Friday met Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at his residence. During the meeting, they are believed to have discussed the new farm laws and the ongoing farmers' agitation. ....

After an uproar over tweets by international celebrities in support of protest by Indian farmers, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday took a swipe at the BJP-led NDA government and questioned why no questions were raised when some "nationalists" proclaimed 'Abki baar, Trump ki sarkar" in the US. ....

Former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot plans to connect with the state's farmers through 'Kisan Sammelans' in the wake of their agitation against the three new central farm laws, with the first such event organised in Dausa on Friday. ....

Continuing its streak of low numbers of single-day coronavirus cases, India reported 12,408 new infections in the last 24 hours, increasing the overall tally to 1,08,02,591, health officials said on Friday. ....

In a shocking incident, an assistant teacher allegedly thrashed the principal of a government inter-college for not being allowed to put his signature first on a register since that determines the seniority level. ....

Pfizer has decided to withdraw its application for Emergency Use Authorisation of its Covid-19 vaccine in India. ....

For the second consecutive day on Friday the minimum temperature remained above the freezing point in Srinagar city as the weather office forecast dry weather for the next seven days. ....

Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to have vaccinated over 5.5 lakh people against Covid-19. ....

Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) chief Shivpal Yadav has said that his party is ready to forge an alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) for the upcoming Assembly elections to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party. ....

The latest serosurvey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has revealed that nearly three times more Indians may have been exposed to coronavirus as compared to the country's current Covid-19 tally. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may speak in the Rajya Sabha on Monday during the motion of thanks to the President's address, according to sources. ....

Considering the upcoming Assembly elections and multiple board exams in West Bengal, the 45th International Kolkata Book Fair will be held in the month of July this year at the Central Park Mela Ground in Salt Lake. ....

Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana F. Patole resigned from his post here on Thursday evening. He submitted his resignation to Deputy Speaker Narhari S. Zhirwal, after a tenure of nearly 14 months in the august post. ....

The more than two-month-long farmers' agitation against the three farm laws continues on Delhi's borders. In such a scenario, Bharatiya Kisan Union national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait has evolved a formula to keep the movement going: Get one tractor and 15 people for 10 days from every village. This will enable the maximum number of farmers to participate in the movement and also return to the village and engage in farming. ....

The Congress lawmakers on Thursday moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha over the newly enacted Central farm laws. ....

It was Maharaja vs Raja in Rajya Sabha on Thursday when the erstwhile Maharaja of Gwalior and now BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia and Congress MP Digvijaya Singh, former Raja of Raghogarh, launched no-holds-barred attacks on each other's parties. ....