After nearly a decade, Rashtrapati Bhavan will not host an Iftar party this year with President Ram Nath Kovind stating that there should no religious observance at taxpayer's expense at the public building.

A day after she removed three ministers, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday reshuffled her ministry, saying the exercise was undertaken to reduce the workload of some of them.

I am not unhappy with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Some sections of the media have misinterpreted my statement, clarified Sri Vishweshateertha Swamiji of Pejawara Mutt.

 Five people, including an ex-Border Security Force Deputy Inspector General and a Deputy Superintendent of Police, were on Wednesday sentenced to 10 years in jail by a special court here in the infamous sex scandal that rocked the state in 2006.

Meetu Dhankar, Tehsildar of Manesar Sub-Division, and her two juniors have been suspended for their alleged involvement in selling government plots to private individuals through nearly two dozen different registries, an official said on Wednesday.

Supporters of former minister Tanveer Sait staged an outcry when he lost the ministership on Wednesday.

The CBI has registered a case against the Principal of Pune-based National Defence Academy (NDA) and four other employees of the institute, including a professor, on charges of irregularities in the appointment of teaching faculty to the organisation's different posts, the agency said on Wednesday.

The Haryana Police has seized 860 boxes of illicit liquor worth lakhs of rupees from a Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanker which was being transported to prohibition state Gujarat.