Senior bureaucrat Rajesh Kumar Singh took over as defence secretary on Friday.
Around 25 garment shops were gutted in a fire that broke out in a market in Odisha's Bhubaneswar during Diwali celebrations early on Friday, police said.
UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Supriya Sule vows to rebuild NCP (SP) with renewed commitment
Manipur CM pledges action against poppy growers
Two highway robbers shot at in Hubballi during spot inspection
Five to six opposition MLAs might cross over to Mahayuti in few months: NCP chief whip Anil Patil
'Well-planned conspiracy by UP CM Adityanath, BJP-RSS': Cong on Sambhal violence
Manipur: Autopsy reports reveal multiple bullet wounds, lacerations on bodies of 3 killed in Jiribam
Maharashtra: Woman records video while husband hangs himself to death from ceiling fan, booked
Bomb-like object found outside police station in Punjab's Ajnala
Congress victory in bypolls not a clean chit to CM in MUDA case: R Ashoka
Maharashtra polls: Independents finish second in 19 constituencies
Pressure groups trying to use social media to affect outcome of cases: Ex CJI Chandrachud
Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) Chairman Bibek Debroy passed away this morning, a senior EAC-PM official said.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has urged Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to release the Centre's share of Rs 817.80 crore in the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) for the Vizhinjam seaport here without imposing the condition that the state has to repay it later.
The AQI in several places in Haryana and some in neighbouring Punjab was recorded in the 'poor' and 'very poor' categories on Friday, the morning after Diwali.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed shock at the death of BJP MLA and veteran Jammu and Kashmir leader Devender Singh Rana.
Colourful lights decked up buildings and diyas (earthen lamps) dotted houses as people across the country celebrated Diwali with great enthusiasm on Thursday.
The nomination papers of 7,994 candidates filed across the 288 assembly constituencies in Maharashtra, where polling will take place on November 20, were found valid after scrutiny, election officials have said.
Patna: Former Union minister RCP Singh, who had to quit his cabinet berth after falling out of favour with JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar, on Thursday floated a new party "Aap Saabki Aawaz".
Muzaffarpur: Four empty wagons of a freight train derailed in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Thursday, officials said.
