Raising "few concerns" on proposed government appointments through lateral entry, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said any deviation from the system, particularly by inducting professionals from non-governmental sector, notwithstanding their talent, may "dilute the sensitivity attached to the functioning of the government".

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that humiliating his gurus - former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, veteran leader L.K. Advani and Jaswant Singh - is his way of protecting Indian culture.

Information sought under the RTI Act about the allotment of land to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for it's new headquarters at 6, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg in New Delhi has been denied by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, an activist said on Tuesday.

The Jharkhand Academic Council on Tuesday declared the results for the Class 10 examination in which overall 59.48 per cent students have passed.

 A contractor, tasked to catch monkeys from here and release them in a distant forested area, stuffed them into small cages and abandoned them in a colony here to save costs, an animal rights group activist said on Tuesday.

A man from Jharkhand was arrested from West Bengal's Burdwan railway station for molesting a French woman in a train, police said on Tuesday.

The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) cleared Sun Pharma Industries Ltd of the issues it raised in December 2015 after inspecting its Halol facility in Gujarat, said the Indian drug maker on Tuesday.

The proposed two-day tour of Congress President Rahul Gandhi to his parliamentary constituency Amethi from Thursday has been cancelled, a party official said on Tuesday.