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Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel

Chhattisgarh hikes quota for OBCs, SCs

With this, the total reservation has gone up to 72 per cent, which is beyond the admissible quota of 50 per cent fixed...

16 Aug 2019 2:01 AM IST

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. (Photo: File)

Assam to give land to 1 lakh landless families

Assam CM vows to protect genuine citizens, error-free NRC.

16 Aug 2019 1:59 AM IST

Trucks and armoured personnel carriers are seen outside the Shenzhen Bay stadium in Shenzhen, bordering Hong Kong in Chinas southern Guangdong province, on Thursday. (Photo: AFP)

Stand on Kashmir exposes China's 'double standards'

Beijing also accused demonstrators in Hong Kong of being radical forcesâ€ who have ramped up violent crimeâ€ there.

16 Aug 2019 1:56 AM IST

China has suffered a spate of industrial accidents in recent months. (Photo:AP)

China seeks UNSC meet on J&K

A top UN diplomat told PTI that Beijing made the move after Islamabad wrote a letter to the UN asking for a meeting.

16 Aug 2019 1:21 AM IST

He (Rahul Gandhi) crossed all limits of propriety, decency and probity in public life by almost condemning the Supreme Court. What does he mean? Is he above the Supreme Court? Union Law Minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad asked. (Photo: ANI)

Law minister, A-G differ over Courts of Appeal plan

The minister was speaking at a function organised at the Supreme Court by the Supreme Court Bar Association to celebrate...

16 Aug 2019 1:17 AM IST

Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik salutes as he hoists the tricolour to mark Independence Day in Srinagar on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Kashmir Valley tense as shutdown total, I-Day peaceful

Your identity is not at risk, Governor Satya Pal Malik tells Kashmiris.

16 Aug 2019 1:12 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with schoolchildren after addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of the 73rd Independence Day in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

India gets Chief of Defence Staff at last; Gen Rawat front-runner

PM Modi announces landmark military reform in his Red Fort address.

16 Aug 2019 1:08 AM IST

Former chief minister of Haryana and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Hooda to put on show of strength with Aug 18 rally

As elections are just two months away, the party will need to act fast or once again be ready for an imminent political...

16 Aug 2019 12:07 AM IST

With his Cabinet yet to be constituted fully, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa is visiting Delhi for discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. (Photo: ANI)

Karnataka CM likely to induct young faces into Cabinet

The top brass had consulted party national organizing secretary, B.L. Santhosh who hails from Karnataka, on the...

16 Aug 2019 12:05 AM IST

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik

Naveen Patnaik to have personal telephonic interactions

All police stations and DHHs will be covered under the programme in first phase.

16 Aug 2019 12:04 AM IST

Addressing the gathering, DC Kulgam, Showkat Ajaz Bhat gave a historical background of the day and said that Independence Day is the most significant day in the history of the country as it was on this day that it achieved freedom on the day from British rule. (Photo: ANI)

J&K: Independence Day celebrated in Kulgam, DC Showkat Ajaz Bhat...

'On the occasion, contingents of CRPF, JKP, JKP Ladies Police Group, ITBP, District police band, Home guard...

15 Aug 2019 8:10 PM IST

The other girls were a Gurdaspur farmers daughter Sulekha, student of Class III from the local Red Cross School for Deaf and Dumb; Muskan who belongs to an EWS family and is a student of local Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Nehru Garden; and Komalpreet Kaur, also from a farming family of village Salempur. (Photo: ANI)

Martyred soldiers' daughters tie 'rakhis' to Punjab CM Captain...

Sonia, who tied 'Rakhi' on Singh's wrist, is the daughter of martyr Constable Raj Kumar of Rakshak Operation in Jammu...

15 Aug 2019 8:07 PM IST