Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Singh Surjewala has accused the Haryana government, led by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, of backtracking on its pre-election job promises by withdrawing advertisements for over 8,000 Group C posts, including a large number of police vacancies.

More than 300 passbooks, linked to mule bank accounts opened in the names of labourers, have been seized through which Delhi government funds sourced from the classroom-construction "scam" during the previous AAP regime were "diverted", the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Friday.

English is "empowering" not "shameful" and must be taught to every child, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday and alleged that the BJP-RSS don't want poor children to learn this language because they don't want them to ask questions and attain equality.

A man was allegedly assaulted and had his head forcibly shaved by a group of villagers in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, prompting the police to lodge an FIR against 11 individuals and launch a probe into the matter, officials said on Friday.

Air India Pune-bound flight from Delhi suffered a bird hit on Friday, forcing the airline to cancel its return journey.

Over a week after 270 people were killed in the Ahmedabad plane crash, 220 victims have been identified through DNA tests, and the mortal remains of 202 of them were handed over to their families, a Gujarat minister said on Friday.

 heart-wrenching video has emerged from Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, showing a grieving father, Shahrukh, in tears after the death of his newborn son Aryan, allegedly due to medical negligence at a government hospital.

Fearing use of its electronic data to create "malicious narratives", the Election Commission has instructed its state poll officers to destroy CCTV camera, webcasting and video footage of the election process after 45 days, if the verdict is not challenged in courts within that period.