In a dharna conducted by the Rashtriya OBC Mahasangh on Friday at Jantar Mantar here, G Karunanidhy, General Secretary of AIOBC said that for centuries backward classes have been denied education and respect while demanding the Union government to consider issues pertaining to the OBCs of the present-day India.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday ordered the registration of an FIR against a woman clerk after a complaint against her was received on the anti-corruption helpline, said AAP leader Malwinder Singh Kang here.

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday said that the CBI has been given consent to probe allegations made by former J&K governor Satya Pal Malik of being offered bribe to clear two files when he was in office.

Chandigarh: Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday targeted AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal over the 2015 sacrilege issue, asking who was stopping his party's government in the state from taking action against those involved in the desecration of religious text.

 In a span of less than two hours, as many as three slight earthquakes were experienced early on Friday in Tamil Nadu's Dindigul region, according to the National Center for Seismology.

Adityanath on Friday took oath as Uttar Pradesh chief minister for the second term in a mega ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top BJP leaders.

 A study has said that heart diseases contributed over 28 per cent of the total deaths in India in 2016, compared to 15.2 per cent in 1990, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday.

The online leakage of personal information of six girl students, most of them minors, from Karnataka's Udupi, where the first protests in connection with the hijab row were reported recently, figured in the Rajya Sabha on Friday with a member demanding protection of data rights.