With central intelligence agencies alerting the state police about possible attempts by terror groups to disrupt and sabotage the 'bhumi pujan' ceremony of Ram temple by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ayodhya next week, all law enforcing agencies in Uttar Pradesh have been put on high alert. ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is said to be infuriated by the increasing number of kidnapping and murder cases in the state. ....

In 1988, just before Kashmir erupted with Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, a young man from Anantnag, a small town in the Valley, was commissioned in the Indian Air Force. ....

BJP President JP Nadda held a virtual meeting with Chief Ministers of Bharatiya Janata Party ruled states on Monday that went on till late in the night. ....

In an encouraging development, an experts' report late on Tuesday pointed to Mumbai heading towards 'herd immunity' as the city recorded the lowest number of cases -- 700 -- in the past three months on Tuesday, officials said. ....

More troubles for Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's elder brother Agrasain Gehlot seems to be coming up as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned him for questioning in fertilizer scam case. ....

For the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday, Covid-19 continued a downward trend in Maharashtra with an added bonus in the form of the highest recoveries till date, health officials said. ....

A city-based private hospital has been forced to return lakhs of rupees of advance money it had collected from Covid patients referred to it by the government for treatment, which should have been free as the cost is borne by the state, an official said on Tuesday. ....

Amid the ongoing political controversy in Rajasthan, All India Congress Committee General Secretary Avinash Pandey on Tuesday had Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra on his radar with a series of tweets with the hashtag #GetWellSoonGovernor. ....

The Aam Aadmi Party in Goa on Tuesday urged Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to simplify home quarantine norms for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients on the lines of the model adopted by the party's government in the national capital, which provides free pulse oxymeters and counselling to the patients. ....

Days after internal communication from the Chennai-based Integral Coach Factory (ICF) that it would complete the manufacturing of 44 Vande Bharat trains by 2027, Chairman Railway Board V.K. Yadav, here on Tuesday, said the new train sets would be manufactured at all three units -- ICF, MCF and RCF -- and in the next two-three years would start rolling out. ....

Bolstering bilateral ties with Mauritius, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Mauritius counterpart Pravind Jugnauth will jointly inaugurate the new Supreme Court building of the island nation on Thursday, which was constructed with Indian grant assistance. ....

Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) and Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) have accused Air India of spreading "deliberate misinformation on social media" and questioned the "duplicitous" tweets by Air India calling them "misleading". ....

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday extended the bi-weekly partial lockdown till August 31 across the state in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus that is touching 67,000-mark in West Bengal. She said there would be no lockdown in the state on August 1st on the occasion of Bakrid. ....

Former J&K Chief Minister and National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah on Tuesday took to Twitter to say that he has not demanded statehood to be restored for Jammu and Kashmir, but said that having been the Chief Minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, he will not contest an Assembly election in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. ....

In a fight against the deadly coronavirus, Israeli researchers have found that low levels of Vitamin D in the blood are associated with an increased risk of Covid-19 infection. ....

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday flagged off 10 broad gauge diesel locomotives to Bangladesh Railways under its "neighbourhood first" policy. ....

Pakistan on Monday resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation along the Line of Control in the Mendhar sector in Poonch using small arms and mortars, officials said. ....

In the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, it is not only the health workers and doctors who are taking the lead, but the ambulance drivers, who are always on the move to attend medical emergencies, are also at the forefront of the battle. ....

Ahead of vacating her government bungalow at 35 Lodi Estate, Priyanka Gandhi spoke to BJP MP Anil Baluni who has been allotted the house. ....