The Congress on Sunday took a swipe at the Modi government over US President Donald Trump's remarks that India is going to buy oil from Venezuela instead of Iran, saying the American leader continues to give “information on what our own government has done or will be doing”.

India and the Arab League nations on Saturday laid out a broader vision for deeper two-way ties, pitched for a sovereign and viable Palestine state living side-by-side with Israel and underlined the need for conducting international relations based on the UN charter.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday called on President Droupadi Murmu before presenting her record ninth Budget in the Lok Sabha.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on February 1 present her ninth straight Budget, which is expected to unveil measures to sustain growth momentum, maintain fiscal discipline, and contain reforms that could buffer the economy from global trade frictions, including US tariffs.

A purported video of a woman allegedly paying a Muslim rickshaw puller Rs 4 instead of the usual Rs 5 fare is doing the rounds on social media. The video has sparked outrage among netizens.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray said on Saturday that the president of a truly Marathi party like the Nationalist Congress Party should be “a Patil and not a Patel”, apparently referring to NCP’s working president Praful Patel.

President Droupadi Murmu has forwarded a complaint seeking the withdrawal of the Padma Bhushan conferred on SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, with instructions to examine the allegations and take appropriate action.

Kerala Minister Saji Cherian on Saturday criticised the teaser of the second part of the film 'The Kerala Story', alleging that it was aimed at "communal polarisation and undermining the state’s secular fabric."