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The United Nations Security Council meets at the UN Headquarters in New York City on February 27, 2022. (Andrea Renault/AFP / AFP)

India abstains on vote to call emergency UN General Assembly session...

India says no other choice but to return to path of diplomacy

28 Feb 2022 11:09 AM IST

Police detain an activist during BJP activists march towards Lalbazar (Kolkata Police headquarters) to protest against the alleged violence during the West Bengal Municipality polls, in Kolkata, (PTI/Swapan Mahapatra)

BJP's Bengal bandh call evokes mixed response

Transportation was normal and most of the commercial establishments remained open in South Bengal

28 Feb 2022 10:45 AM IST

A health worker administers a dose of Covid-19 vaccine to a beneficiary, at a vaccination centre, in Gurugram. (Photo: PTI)

India's single-day rise of Covid infections fall below 10,000 after...

The death toll has climbed to 5,13,843 with 119 daily fatalities, with a decline in active cases

28 Feb 2022 10:21 AM IST

Elections for the 60-member Manipur Assembly are taking place in two phases, that is, February 28 and March 5. (Photo: PTI/File)

Manipur elections 2022: Incidents of violence, EVM damage reported...

At least one person was injured in a clash between two parties in Churachandpur district

28 Feb 2022 9:20 AM IST

Indian nationals, evacuated from war-torn Ukraine, upon their arrival at the IGI Airport, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore)

Three more flights bring back 688 Indians from Ukraine

Government says taking steps to ensure return of all stranded citizens

28 Feb 2022 8:28 AM IST

More batches of Indian students enter Hungary from Ukrainian side at Zahony crossing, travelling onward to Budapest for return to India by AI flight. (PTI)

PM Modi chairs crisis meet as 15K Indians still stuck in war zone

Indians fleeing the war zone have been asked to prominently display the tricolour on their buses to escape amid...

28 Feb 2022 6:51 AM IST

Voters stand in a queue to cast their ballots outside a polling station during the fifth phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, in Allahabad on February 27, 2022. (SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP)

53.93 per cent voter turnout in UP fifth phase elections, till 5 pm

Barring a few reports of EVM glitches and some stray cases of poll violence, the phase went off largely peaceful

28 Feb 2022 1:28 AM IST

Indian nationals on board a special Air India flight as people stranded in war-torn Ukraine are evacuated, in Romania, Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Air India evacuation flights costing Rs 7-8 lakh per hour: Source

The airline is operating the services with wide-body Boeing 787 plane, better known as Dreamliner

27 Feb 2022 3:55 PM IST

Indian nationals, evacuated from war-torn Ukraine, upon their arrival at the IGI Airport, in New Delhi, early Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

Russia-Ukraine crisis: Air India flights carrying 490 Indian evacuees...

India on Saturday began the evacuation of its stranded citizens amid the Russian military offensive in Ukraine

27 Feb 2022 2:11 PM IST

The students who reached the border point on Saturday pleaded for help to put an end to their ordeal and the uncertainty over their evacuation. Image credit: Twitter/@IndiainUkraine)

Indian students hoping for exit through Poland stuck at border in...

Sleeping in parks in temperature below minus 4 degrees, their food stocks dwindling and their phone batteries dying

27 Feb 2022 1:45 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (PTI)

PM Modi lauds 'people's participation' in strengthening Swachh Bharat...

PM lauded the efforts of the local people of Visakhapatnam against the single-use plastic with an aim to keep the...

27 Feb 2022 12:44 PM IST

BJP National President JP Nadda at a meeting with partys National General Secretaries at party headquarters in New Delhi.(Photo: Twitter @BJP4India)

BJP president Nadda's account hacked, tweets on Ukraine crisis, crypto...

A party leader said that the account had been restored, stating that they are in touch with Twitter to ascertain the...

27 Feb 2022 11:24 AM IST