The Union Cabinet has cleared all 14 amendments to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, as proposed by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). The Bill, introduced in August last year to amend the Waqf Act of 1995, is expected to be tabled in Parliament during the second half of the Budget session starting on 10 March.

A labourer died and 49 were pulled out alive from the snow that engulfed a BRO camp in the high-altitude Mana village in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district as rescuers raced against time to find survivors on Saturday. Five workers remain trapped.

Rescue teams engaged in extricating the eight trapped workers under a partially collapsed tunnel of the SLBC here are cutting down a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) to make way to reach the stranded persons, officials said on Saturday

India recorded its hottest February in 124 years with an average temperature of more than 22 degrees Celsius, official data showed.

The Maharashtra government has rejected the Opposition's allegation about charging a high fee for high-security registration plates (HSRPs), citing that the prices were on par with the other states.

An encounter broke out between Naxalites and security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Saturday morning, police said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to announce its new national president by mid-March, likely on the 15th or 16th, after the completion of organisational elections in 13 states. Party sources indicate that the selection process for JP Nadda’s successor is being guided by internal consensus.

Rescuers resumed the search for 22 labourers trapped under several feet of snow in the high-altitude Mana village in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Saturday morning as the weather cleared up.