India reported 1,20,529 fresh COVID-19 cases, the lowest single-day rise in infections in around two months, taking the infection tally to 2,86,94,879, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday.
The death toll from COVID-19 climbed to 3,44,082 with 3,380 new fatalities, while the number of active cases...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke to his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on Wednesday, focussing on the evolving situation in Afghanistan as well as bilateral issues.
The conversation came two weeks after Jaishankar held extensive talks with Zarif and called on Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi during a stopover at the...
Iran's outgoing president on Wednesday warned his country could enrich uranium at weapons-grade levels of 90% if it chose, though it still wanted to save its tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
President Hassan Rouhani's comments, carried by the state-run IRNA news agency, came as he also criticised Iran's wider...
Israel's new government will work to "advance strategic relations" with India, Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Monday, a day after Naftali Bennett became the new premier ending Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year hold on power.
"I look forward to working together to advance the strategic relations between...
Five of the six Lok Janshakti Party MPs in the Lok Sabha have joined hands against their leader Chirag Paswan and elected his paternal uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras in his place, causing a big churn in Bihar politics.
Paras on Monday lauded Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as a good...
Flagging India's concerns over security challenges in the maritime sphere, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday called for a rule-based order in the Indo-Pacific and underlined the need for ensuring freedom of navigation, overflight and unimpeded commerce in the international waterways including the South China Sea.
In a virtual address...
संसद परिसर में उप राष्ट्रपति जगदीप धनखड़ की नकल उतारे जाने के घटनाक्रम का वीडियो बनाने को लेकर भारतीय जनता पार्टी (भाजपा) के महासचिव कैलाश विजयवर्गीय ने कांग्रेस के पूर्व अध्यक्ष राहुल गांधी पर बृहस्पतिवार को निशाना साधा और कहा कि गांधी सांसद पद के लायक तक नहीं हैं।
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Former Manipur Congress president Govindas Konthoujam joined the BJP on Sunday.
He joined the BJP in the presence of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni and the party's in-charge for the state Sambit Patra.
A six-time consecutively elected MLA from the Bishnupur seat, Konthoujam had quit...
Kanhaiya Kumar has expelled himself from the CPI, the party's general secretary D Raja said on Tuesday moments after the former JNU leader quit the Left party and joined the Congress.
He alleged that Kumar was "not truthful" with the Communist Party of India (CPI) leadership and also not "straightforward" in his...
Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday urged Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to convene an all-party meeting to discuss long-term measures for tackling floods, in the wake of some parts of the state facing deluge after heavy rains last month.
Fadnavis, who toured flood-ravaged areas of...
