As many as 16 Chinese nationals have been granted Indian citizenship in the last 15 years, Union Minister Nityanand Rai said on Wednesday.

AAP leader Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as the Punjab chief minister on Wednesday.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday urged the government to put an end to the alleged "systematic interference" of Facebook and other social media giants in India's electoral politics.

The Supreme Court Wednesday sought responses of the Uttar Pradesh government and Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, on a plea challenging the grant of bail to him by the Allahabad High Court in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence that left eight people, including four farmers, dead.

 The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to list for hearing after Holi vacation the pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict which dismissed the petitions seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classroom saying it is not a part of the essential religious practice in Islamic faith.

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday said he has resigned as the party's Punjab chief.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised "The Kashmir Files", a film based on the plight of displaced Kashmiri Hindus, and slammed the "campaign to discredit" it, the Congress accused the BJP government on Tuesday of not doing anything for the welfare of Kashmiri Pandits and asked till when "will you take advantage by scratching wounds"?

The 44th edition of the Chess Olympiad will be held in Chennai later this year, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin tweeted on Tuesday.