New Delhi: India recorded the milestone of administering one billion doses of COVID vaccines across the country. Pro-government social media users were elated at the country hit the one billion doses mark and soon hashtag #OneBillionDose was trending across social media.

Mumbai: A special NDPS court here on Thursday extended the judicial custody of Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, and seven others till October 30 in connection with the case of seizure of banned drugs from a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast earlier this month.

Ghaziabad: The BKU, whose supporters and office-bearers led by Rakesh Tikait are camping on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghazipur since November 2020, on Thursday said the barriers at the protest site have been put by the Delhi police and not farmers.

Kolkata: West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Thursday cited three different studies to claim that 35,000 Indian entrepreneurs of high net worth left the country between 2014 and 2020 during the tenure of the Narendra Modi government.

The BJP and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) are spreading "terrorism" in Mumbai, NCP leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik alleged on Wednesday as he continued his tirade against the central agency and its top officer Sameer Wankhede.

A court here on Thursday rejected Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut's petition seeking transfer of the criminal defamation case filed against her by lyricist Javed Akhtar.

After promising 40 per cent tickets to women in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra announced on Thursday that all class 12 pass girls will be given a smartphone while all graduate girls will get an electric scooty if her party forms a government in the state.

The Union Cabinet on Thursday hiked dearness allowance and dearness relief by 3 per cent to 31 per cent to benefit 47.14 lakh central government employees and 68.62 lakh pensioners.