India

On late Tuesday evening, following a phone call where “miscreants” claimed that a Hindu woman was being forcefully converted to Islam through marriage, the police landed up at the wedding venue and stopped the ceremony.

The union home secretary reviewed the arrangements for COVID-19 vaccine roll-out and asked the state and UTs to prepare a database of the frontline workers who will receive the vaccine during the initial stages, a home ministry official said.

Walmart Inc's Indian ecommerce firm Flipkart and digital payments business PhonePe have room for other investors and could raise money in several ways including stock market listings, the U.S. retail giant's CEO said on Thursday.

While granting bail to Shah Alam, Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav said the name of the only prosecution witness in the case was kept deliberately as there were no other independent witnesses.

"Out of 28 proposals, eight proposals amounting to Rs 5,394 crore were sanctioned to Videocon Group after she became the MD and CEO of ICICI Bank," the ED said.

PM Modi performed rituals around a holy pyre along with six priests from the Sringeri Mutt in Karnataka beneath a flower-decked marquee.

State's BJP chief Dilip Ghosh wrote a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah, stating that at their party office at Hastings, Kolkata, there was a mob of 200 plus with sticks, bamboos etc were demonstrating raising black flags, while the police did not interve...

The Education Minister said that the authorities are aiming to conduct the NEET and JEE Exams 2021 in a well-planned manner without any delay in the schedule.

The outcome will be announced soon with the concurrence of the Ayush Ministry, researchers involved in the project said.

The active caseload remained below 4 lakh for the fourth consecutive day. There are 3,72,293 active coronavirus infections in the country which comprise 3.81 per cent of the total caseload.

Airbnb proved its resilience in a year that has upended global travel. Now it needs to prove to investors that it sees more growth ahead.

Sitharaman called upon the international community for further strengthening of the tax transparency agenda to global cooperation on assistance in recovery of taxes, and measures to tackle emerging risks to tax transparency.

"Based on the 15th Finance Commission interim recommendations, the Govt released Rs 6,195.08 crore on 9th December 2020 to 14 States on account of the 9th equated monthly installment of Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant," Office of Finance Minister Ni...

BJP president J P Nadda said the saffron party's win in Rajasthan symbolises the trust the poor, farmers and labourers have in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, while senior party leader and Union minister Prakash Javadekar stressed that people,...

Doctors are attending the veteran CPI(M) leader at the hospital's 'flu clinic'. Bhattacharya had stepped down from the CPI(M)'s politburo, the central committee and state secretariat in 2018.

The minister said despite several agreements to maintain peace and tranquility at the border, China had brought in tens of thousands of troops on their side of the border in complete disregard to the agreements.