From 2021 onwards, only those with a Ph.D degree will be eligible to be recruited as teachers in central universities, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on Wednesday.

BJP President Amit Shah on Wednesday asked the party's Rajasthan leaders to keep their internal fights aside and prepare for the upcoming assembly elections in the state unitedly.

A Special Police Officer (SPO) was critically injured after militants shot him in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Wednesday, police said.

The Rajput organisation has demanded an immediate apology in the case, even as the Minister said she was not referring to the community, while the Congress slammed her statements.

In order to create a stronger deterrent for NRIs who have abandon their wives in India, the Ministry of External Affairs will now display the summons to such men on their official website, an official said on Wednesday.

Two Muslims were beaten to death by villagers in Jharkhand's Godda district on Wednesday after being accused of cattle theft, police said. Four people have been arrested.

"He (Kejriwal) is not just anybody, but an elected Chief Minister who got 67 seats. He is begging for justice and nobody is taking note of the matter. I was thinking if Vajpayeeji was the Prime Minister today, what would he have done? He would have ordered the Union Home Minister to sit with the elected Chief Minister of Delhi and find a solution to this impasse," he said.

 The death toll in the bus accident that took place in Kannauj on Wednesday morning rose to 18 by the evening, with one more passenger of the ill-fated vehicle succumbing to his injuries, police said.