The Indian Railways has decided to run 20 pairs of special trains from September 2 to 15 for the convenience of the canidates appearing for NEET, JEE and NDA examinations in Bihar. ....

For the first time since the India-China skirmishes began at Ladakh earlier this year, the Indian Army is dominating strategic locations on the south bank of Pangong Lake, even as China enhanced deployment of troops close to the Thakung base in Indian territory and tried to change the status quo. ....

As many as 43,894 students are expected to write the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-Main) at 33 centres in Karnataka from September 1 to 6. ....

Forest officials in Odisha's Keonjhar district have seized 14 elephant tusks weighing around 19 kilogram. Three persons have been arrested, an official said on Tuesday. ....

Pranab Mukherjee, a former President, the man who missed becoming the Prime Minister of India by a whisker, the Congress party’s trouble-shooter during the UPA rule and the unlikely Congressman with proximity to Prime Minister Narendra Modi (the Prime Minister refers to him as ‘Dada’), breathed his last at the age of 84, marking the end of an era. Detected with COVID-19, he was on ventilator following a brain surgery to remove a blood clot. The former president was admitted to the Army’s R&R Hospital in Delhi Cantt on August 10 in ....

Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who passed away here at Army's R&R Hospital during treatment on Monday at the age of 84, was cremated with full military honours on Tuesday afternoon at the Lodhi Road crematorium following a strict Covid-19 precautionary protocol. ....

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Dr. Kafeel Khan of Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur who has been booked under the National Security Act (NSA) and is lodged in Mathura jail since his arrest in January this year. ....

President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday led the nation in paying tributes to former President Pranab Mukherjee, who lays in state at his residence. ....

The Indian and Chinese militaries began the third round of talks at Chushul on Tuesday to resolve the fresh skirmishes at Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh. ....

Fresh coronavirus infections recorded in past 24 hours in India were 69,921. This was on an average a drop of several thousand cases after the numbers regularly inched closer to the 80,000-mark over the past five days. ....

The officials of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and the district administration said all necessary preparations and precautions were in place to welcome visitors to the historical monuments in Agra, other than the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort. ....

The Congress in Bihar will kick off its virtual campaign in the pandemic era for the upcoming Assembly elections from the state's Betiya town in West Champaran district on Tuesday. ....

Gujarat has reported 1,280 new Covid-19 cases pushing the total tally to 96,435, health officials said on Monday. ....

At least 4 persons were killed and 4 others injured when a speeding car rammed into an eatery in south Mumbai on Monday night, police said. ....

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday expressed his "profound sorrow" at the passing away of former President and ministerial colleague Pranab Mukherjee. ....

Centre has extended the suspension on scheduled commercial international flights to and from India till September-end. ....

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said violation of social distancing norms during Ganesh Chaturthi led to the recent spurt in coronavirus cases in the state. ....

The Xi Jinping regime on Monday evening threatened that China-India border tensions will "surely escalate this time," since India had "crossed the LAC and purposely launched provocations." ....

About Pranab Mukherjee, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh once told me that he was like Dhrupad Sangeet. If you don't understand Dhrupad or if your ears are not trained to listen to Dhrupad, then it will be difficult for you to enjoy the music. ....

The Congress on Monday upped the ante against the Modi government over the Chinese aggression at the border and asked "when will Prime Minister Narendra Modi show his red eyes to China?" ....