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Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez (Facebook)

UNHRC concerned over Jammu & Kashmir situation, calls for release of...

Khurram Parvez has been actively involved in highlighting the human rights situation in the erstwhile state of Jammu and...

2 Dec 2021 12:30 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (ANI Photo)

Winter session: PM Modi holds meeting with top ministers to discuss...

On the first day of the session, both the Houses of Parliament passed the Farm Laws Repeal Bill 2021

2 Dec 2021 12:23 PM IST

Kapil Sibal (Twitter)

Without Congress, UPA will be body without soul: Kapil Sibal

Mamata met NCP chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai and called for fighting the BJP unitedly while taking a veiled swipe at the...

2 Dec 2021 11:51 AM IST

A health worker prepares to inoculates a man with a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo: AFP)

SII seeks approval for Covishield vaccine as booster dose amid Omicron...

The Serum Institute of India is the first Indian company to seek approval for the COVID-19 booster dose

2 Dec 2021 10:23 AM IST

Arriving passengers leave a terminal at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

India records 9,765 new Covid cases, 477 deaths in a span of 24 hours

The active cases comprise 0.29 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020

2 Dec 2021 10:00 AM IST

Sudha Bharadwaj (Image credit: Live Law)

Court grants bail to Sudha Bharadwaj in Bhima Koregao case

The court granted bail to Sudha but directed that she be produced before the special NIA court that would decide...

2 Dec 2021 8:38 AM IST

NCP President Sharad Pawar, West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee during a meeting at the formers residence in Mumbai, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. NCP leader Prafull Patel and TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee are also seen. (PTI)

'What UPA? There is no UPA now': Mamata Banerjee

Ms Banerjee's barbs were seen as aimed at the Congress which has reportedly strained its ties with the TMC

2 Dec 2021 8:28 AM IST

Cover Image of the book Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism. (Twitter)

Kamaladevi Prize goes to historian Dinyar Patel

He has won it for the biography titled Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism published by Harvard University Press

2 Dec 2021 2:31 AM IST

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and other leaders during a protest over suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha MPs, near the Mahatma Gandhis statue at Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Dec 1, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Opposition firm against apologising for RS stand

Rahul Gandhi led the protest along with other Opposition MPs

2 Dec 2021 1:13 AM IST

The announcement follows a diplomatic row after the UK had included Covishield in its approved vaccine formulations but refused to recognise Indians vaccinated with it as eligible for travel without quarantine measures. (Photo: AFP)

Negative RT-PCR report must for domestic passengers arriving at Mumbai...

The Maharashtra State Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday night had issued the latest guidelines

1 Dec 2021 6:34 PM IST

According to the State Disaster Management Secretary, Uttarakhand has recorded more than 200mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours. (PTI file Photo)

India saw 645 heavy, 168 very heavy rainfall events in Nov, highest in...

The country as a whole received 56.5 mm of rainfall against the normal of 30.5 mm -- an excess of 85.4 per cent -- in...

1 Dec 2021 4:48 PM IST

Scheduled domestic flights in India were completely suspended for a period of two months between March 25 and May 24, 2020, due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown. (Representational image: Twitter/@airindiain)

Omicron threat: Centre not to resume international flights from Dec 15

The aviation ministry also clarified that post-arrival testing can be exempted if a person is travelling from a not...

1 Dec 2021 3:49 PM IST