The minimum standards of education need to be raised for the majority of students, Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia, said on Thursday, adding there is a growing confidence that government schools are the solution to the country's educational levels.

A Hindu woman married to a Muslim got her passport on Thursday, following External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's intervention, barely 24 hours after a passport officer rejected her application on the grounds that she had not changed her surname.

Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari's recent push for promotion of cruise tourism could boost employment in the sector, the promoter of a Goa-based culinary training institute has said.

In an attempt to downsize its workforce, the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday said it has set up a Staff Rationalisation Committee.

A district cooperative bank, with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah as director, netted the highest deposits among such banks of old ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes that were demonetised on November 8, 2016, according to RTI replies received by a Mumbai activist.

In a move to rehabilitate manual scavengers in the city, the Delhi government is all set to turn the 'safai karamcharis' into entrepreneurs by providing them loans to own sewer cleaning machines.

Authorities on Thursday placed senior separatist leaders under detention in the summer capital Srinagar to prevent their participation in a protest shutdown that derailed life in the Kashmir Valley.

Three youth have been detained and are being questioned in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh for their alleged complicity in stone-pelting in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar district, police said on Thursday.