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Rajya Sabha today named 10 of its members to the Joint Committee of Parliament that will go into the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016. A resolution moved by Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, on behalf of Home Minister Rajnath Sin...

The photo released by Saudi agencies of the suicide bomber outside the US consulate in Jeddah in July is of a 34-year-old Pakistani national Abdullah Qalzar Khan. If the two men are the same, it indicates that Pakistan gave a fake passport to a suspected...

"In 2015-16, 13.79 million tonne and in 2016-17, 12.448 MT of coal was made available through auction in special forward e-auction for power sector," Goyal said.

Nearly 6,000 security personnel and hundreds of CCTV cameras will monitor from three control-rooms the venue at Red Fort, from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation in presence of dignitaries, including foreign representatives and tho...

The webpage will host live webcast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day Speech from the Red Fort and his other speeches at events related to these celebrations.

The Minister said the Railways would look into the issue of wrongdoings, if any, in the process of multiple bookings.

Housing and urbanization come under the purview of the state governments, the minister said, adding that central schemes like JNNURM, RAY, PMAY-U are being implemented for providing low-cost houses and related civic amenities to the urban poor including s...

The racket came to light when the police were tipped off that a kidney transplant operation had been scheduled on July 14 at the privately-run hospital where donor and recipient were not related.

A senior Delhi Traffic Police official confirmed that the incident occurred around the time Prime Minister's cavalcade was to pass from there.

When the train arrived at Egmore station in Chennai, it was discovered that two boxes were tampered with and by drilling a hole through roof of the coach thieves decamped with some cash.

Lohani, who will be completing one year at the helm this month, has emphasised that work should be the focus rather than petty courtesies.

While dismissing his appeal, the court noted that in the absence of any prior animosity, the minor girl, who was living with her step-father for the last 10 years, was not expected to level such serious allegations against him.

IG Meerut Zone Sujit Kumar Pandey 'unintentionally' named the victims in the Bulandshahr gang-rape case.

Modi will launch the campaign "70 saal Azaadi, Yaad karo Qurbani" aimed at strengthening nationalistic fervour. After paying floral tributes at Azad's birthplace, he will address a meeting at Jothrada village, about 10 km away from Bhabhra.

News Digest: L-G asks for files on all decisions taken by govt. without his consent Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung on Monday issued an order addressed to all Secretaries and heads of departments of the Delhi government asking for the files of all the...

The statement comes after animal right bodies like Humane Society International India and People for Animals recently launched a campaign asking the Environment Ministry to enhance the punishment for animal cruelty and make it "stronger".