In controversial remarks, BJP General Secretary D Purandeswari on Thursday said if her party workers "spit", Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and his cabinet will get "swept away".
Well known Sunni cleric and All India Muslim Personal Law Board member Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi Mahali has strongly supported the Allahabad High Court's suggestion to make cow India's national animal.
Stirring a controversy, three pandal committees in West Bengal have collaborated to make idols of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as Goddess Durga for upcoming puja celebrations. The three committees -- Nazrul Park Unnayan Samity, Baguiati Puja Committee and Crowdnxt Media Art, said that they will be making idols of Goddess Durga resembling the Chief Minister.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday imposed restrictions on passengers from additional countries, citing the reports of new mutations in SARS-CoV-2 and the rising number of "Variants of Concern (VOCs) and Variants of Interest (Vols) globally".
India will host a key conference as part of the International Climate Summit (ICS) 2020-21 today. The aim is to build a dialogue for India's transition to clean energy. ICS 2021 is an initiative by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Environment Committee, that has partnered with Invest India. It is one of the world's most awarded investment promotion agencies and a co-organiser for the hybrid event, slated to be held today. 
India recorded 45,352 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 366 deaths due to the infection in the past 24 hours. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Friday, the country saw a total of 34,791 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery rate at around 97.45 per cent and total recoveries to 3,20,63,616.
After Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) announced to hold conferences of intellectuals in Uttar Pradesh in the run up to next year's assembly elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) too has announced that it will organise a series of conferences for the 'enlightened class' across the state. The saffron party said that conferences will be organised in all 403 assembly constituencies, beginning September 5.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...
