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Banerjee on Wednesday also asserted that the name of her party will continue to be All India Trinamool Congress. "BJP can influence the EC. But the name of our party will remain the same," she said.

Hindu students in the UK are targets of bullying and racial discrimination in classrooms with Muslim pupils telling them to change their religion to make their lives easier, according to a London-based think tank.

Atiq Ahmad, the gangster-turned-politician who was gunned down in Prayagraj on April 15, had tried to grab a property worth Rs 20 crore in Delhi's South Extension area on the basis of forged documents. The victim, a businessman, has been fighting a long battle without any help.

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing some petitioners, submitted before a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, that a large part of problem will be solved through this interpretation.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has frozen ten bank accounts of Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha, who has been arrested in connection with the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday restrained all news channels and all other media organisations from displaying or publishing content of the charge sheet filed in the Shraddha Walkar murder case.

Patients with severe Covid-19 requiring mechanical ventilation are 16 times more likely to develop life-threatening ventricular tachycardia -- a heart rhythm condition -- within six months compared to those without severe infection, according to a research.

The Centre has requested the Supreme Court to join all states and Union Territories (UTs) as a party in the ongoing hearing on petitions seeking legal sanction to same-sex marriages.

The UN has protested to the US against the spying on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and other officials calling it an "interference" by Washington, according to spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.

Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda on Tuesday launched a centrally-sponsored scheme to promote value addition and marketing of products made by the tribals from the northeastern region.

"A total of 110 former NDFB members joined our party today," said Tuliram Ronghang, chief executive of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC), who welcomed the new members at the local BJP office.

Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha on Tuesday inaugurated a blood donation camp here at Agartala IGM and called for mass donation of blood so as to bridge the gap between the supply and demand here in the state.

Sources said that so far the health department could detect 10 covid-19 cases including five from the Unakoti district, four from West District and one from North district which shares border with neighbour Assam and Mizoram and one among them has travel history to Maharashtra.

Amidst the ongoing heat wave condition in Tripura, the state government has directed all its eight District Magistrate and Collectors to take precautionary measures for the Heat Wave, Sun Stroke and Sun Burn which were identified as State Specific Disasters.

A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked the CBI to direct its ongoing probe in the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal against another Trinamool Congress legislator, Tapas Saha, from Tehatta Assembly constituency.

On the directives of the High Court, the Meghalaya government has urged the Central government to deploy at least 10 companies of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) to curb illegal mining and transportation of coal, an official said on Tuesday.

Days after mafia Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were shot dead, a lettter of Atiq's wife Shaista Parveen is going viral on social media in which she had expressed apprehension that the duo might be killed on the pretext of remand in the case.

A party leader here explained that her possible references could be firstly to the upcoming Supreme Court verdict on the disqualification of the 16 Shiv Sena MLAs, including NCP chief Sharad Pawar, and secondly its potential ramifications on the state government here.

Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were shot dead in Prayagraj on Saturday night, in the presence of the police and in full glare of the media. Atiq and his brother were shot when they were taken for a medical test to the Colvin hospital. Both died on the spot.

Quoting the sources in Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the reports said that the date of visit was proposed to Kathmandu by New Delhi. Prachanda is likely to be in India on a three-day visit, the sources added.

While hearing a batch of petitions seeking legal sanction to same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court on Tuesday orally observed that there is no absolute concept of a man or a woman and it cannot be only about the genitals, rather it is far more complex.

An aerial search team has located Kaur, who scaled the world's 10th highest peak without using supplemental oxygen on Monday, above Camp IV, Chairman at Pioneer Adventure Pasang Sherpa said.

The department is of the opinion that online sale outlets are pushing the sale of these banned pesticides, and the department has already constituted special squads to check, stop and prevent the use of these pesticides.

The shocking incident occurred in Kamareddy district of Telangana. According to police, one Chinna Balayya killed his mother E. Balavva (80), who was ailing and bedridden, by throttling her with a piece of cloth and later buried her.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday rubbished all speculation that his nephew, Ajit Pawar would trigger a fresh 'political earthquake' by joining hands with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).