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NCP chief Sharad Pawar will remain in home quarantine for next few days. (PTI Photo)

Pawar rules out Shiv Sena's claim to Speaker's post in Maharashtra...

In the power-sharing agreement within the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) Government, the speaker's post has been allotted to...

12 July 2021 7:12 AM IST

Union minister for IT and communications Ashwini Vaishnaw. (PTI)

IT rules will create safer social media: Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

The new rules which came into effect on May 25 mandate social media companies to establish a grievance redressal...

12 July 2021 7:06 AM IST

For most Indians China is an adversary, a source of cheap products or the home of chow mien. (Twitter)

Sanjaya Baru | India-China: Bhai-bhai to buy-buy to bye-bye

China has risen on the foundations of its human capabilities and Indians ought to have a better appreciation of that.

12 July 2021 2:57 AM IST

This comes a day after the J&K government sacked its eleven employees. (Photo: PTI)

Islamic State conspiracy': NIA conducts multiple raids in Kashmir,...

This comes a day after the J&K government sacked its eleven employees on charges of being involved in anti-India...

11 July 2021 12:48 PM IST

A medical worker holds a vial of Russias Sputnik V vaccine for Covid-19. (Photo:AP/File)

Sputnik V gives 90 per cent protection against Delta strain, says...

Russia became the first country in the world to register a vaccine against the coronavirus, dubbed Sputnik V, in August...

11 July 2021 12:00 PM IST

Peoples uprising loyal to Ata Mohammad Noor, chief of Jamiat-e-Islami and a powerful northern warlord, stand guard at their office in Mazar-e-Sharif north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

India evacuates staff from Kandahar as Taliban captures new areas

A special aircraft of the Indian Air Force was sent on Saturday to bring back the Indian diplomats, officials and other...

11 July 2021 11:20 AM IST

Twitter express concern over the safety of its employees in India and said it will continue to be strictly guided by principles of transparency and protecting freedom of expression. (Photo:AP)

Twitter appoints new Resident Grievance Officer for India amid row...

Vinay Prakash is the Resident Grievance Officer (RGO)

11 July 2021 10:48 AM IST

A health worker takes swab sample of a devotee who will be participatinng in an annual Rath Yatra or chariot procession of Lord Jagannath at Jagannath temple in Ahmedabad. (Photo: PTI)

India logs 41,506 new cases of Covid, 895 fresh fatalities

The active cases comprise 1.47 per cent of the total infections

11 July 2021 10:11 AM IST

Syed Salahuddin

Hizb chief's two sons in J&K among 11 sacked sacked in 'national...

Action against Syed Shakeel Ahmed and Syed Shahid Yusuf was taken in the light of the investigations done by NIA in a...

11 July 2021 7:54 AM IST

Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan. (Photo:PTI)

Cooperatives a state subject, says Congress

Several Opposition leaders feel that the move is to hijack the cooperative movement that currently falls under the state...

11 July 2021 7:48 AM IST

The fact that it is headed by home minister Amit Shah, the second-most important leader in the Narendra Modi government, is a sure sign that the new ministry is politically important for this dispensation. (PTI)

Anita Katyal | Amit Shah's secret of utmost cooperation'; Twitter &...

It is said the new ministry is aimed at checkmating state leaders who derive political clout from the cash-rich...

11 July 2021 3:12 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo)

Pavan K Varma | The method and madness of Modi's Cabinet shuffle

The way portfolios have been combined leaves one, frankly, flummoxed

11 July 2021 3:00 AM IST