Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said the burden of the Rs 35,000 crore plus loan waiver for farmers announced by the government will not be passed on to the people. ....

As the first lady Chief Justice of Delhi High Court G. Rohini retired from her post on Thursday, the court now will be headed by another lady judge Justice Gita Mittal, the second senior-most judge of the high court. ....

The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Thursday won the Delhi assembly by-election from the Rajouri Garden constituency with a margin of over 14,000 votes. ....

Salim Siddiqui, 65, who fixes motorcycles in a Hindu majority area here, the headquarters of the state's largest district of Lakhimpur-Kheri, feels the town lost its innocence since it witnessed its first communal brawl about a month back -- which also spread to surrounding areas. ....

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted massive searches against tax professionals and chartered accountants (CAs) here as part of its ongoing operation against shell companies, an official said. ....

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday questioned the credibility of the "open challenge" by the Election Commission (EC) to hack its electronic voting machines (EVMs). ....

The BJP retained the Dhemaji assembly seat on Thursday when its candidate Ranoj Pegu won the by-election to the assembly, defeating Babul Sonowal of the Congress by a margin of over 9,000 votes. ....

Rail traffic was disrupted in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Thursday as hundreds of commuters blocked railway tracks on the Sealdah-Budge Budge section to protest delay in train arrivals. ....

Assam's ruling BJP retained the Dhemaji assembly seat in a bypoll as party candidate Ranoj Pegu trounced his nearest Congress rival Babul Sonowal by over 9,000 votes. ....

The opposition Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Thursday retained the Littipara assembly seat with its candidate Simon Marandi defeating his BJP rival Hemlal Murmu by 12,900 votes in the April 9 bypoll. ....