BSP president Mayawati said on Friday that the Ganga Expressway, Noida airport and other projects were result of the development models formulated when her party was in power in Uttar Pradesh.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim protection to five BJP leaders, including Mukul Roy and MPs Kailash Vijayvargiya and Arjun Singh, in criminal cases lodged against them in West Bengal and directed the state police not to taken any coercive action. 
The rollout of Covid-19 vaccine by Bharat Biotech for the general public may get delayed as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), where its Phase-III human clinical trial is underway, is struggling to find takers of the trial shots, the official heading the project told IANS.
With 11 more cases slapped on Samajwadi Party MP Mohd Azam Khan, the tally of cases he is facing has reached 100. During a hearing through video conferencing at a special court on Thursday, the Rampur Police told the special MP/MLA court that Azam Khan's name was added in 11 FIRs, which were earlier registered against his close aides in the alleged illegal demolition of homes in the district.
Trinamool Congress leader Kabirul Islam has resigned from the post of the general secretary of the party's minority cell, news agency ANI reported. The resignation came soon after Barrackpore MLA Shilbhadra Dutta resigned from the party. 
The Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry has informed the Supreme Court that 'active fire events' (AFE), or stubble burning, have increased by nearly 45 per cent in Punjab, and reduced by 25 per cent in Haryana, when compared with 2019.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sought people's views on the year 2020, seen as one of the most disruptive in recent history due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and also what they looked forward to in the next year, ahead of his 'Mann ki Baat' broadcast on December 27. This will his last broadcast for this year. Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
