An electricity meter hangs on the mud wall of Deenbandhu’s house in Goiya Khurd village in Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot, one of the most backward districts of India.

Similar meters are installed at many houses in Goiya Khurd, but none connected to the grid. Electricity poles have not yet reached this village.

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined urgent hearing on a plea by senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram, who is facing several criminal cases, seeking its permission to go abroad.

The CBI on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the FIR on bribery allegations against Special Director Rakesh Asthana and others shows cognisable offences.

More than 100 passengers were stranded at Kolkata airport early Thursday after a water tanker hit a Qatar Airways aircraft, which was preparing to take off for Doha.

Uppinangady: A law student from Puttur was reportedly killed in the accident that occurred at Sakaleshpura this morning.

PM Narendra Modi dedicated the tallest statue in the world of Sardar Patel, made at a cost of Rs 3000 cr to the nation. He has called it the ‘statue of unity’. There cannot be a bigger joke than that. May be a government which forced the country to stand on the brink of division needed a comic relief such as this to cover up for its lacunae.

More than 3,000 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu were chased away by the Sri Lankan Navy, who also hurled stones at them and snapped fishing nets of 50 vessels for fishing in their territorial waters, a fishermen association leader claimed on Thursday.

In 254 religious identity-based hate crimes reported in India between January 1, 2009, and October 29, 2018, at least 91 persons were killed and 579 were injured, according to a new FactChecker.in database, released on October 30, 2018. About 90% (229) of these attacks were reported after May 2014, when the current Bharatiya Janata Party-led government assumed power nationally.