BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Sunday warned against attempts to turn the Lakhimapur Kheri incident into a "Hindu vs Sikh battle", saying it is dangerous to create these fault lines and reopen wounds that have taken a generation to heal.
Senior BJP leader and Minister of Transport in the Uttarakhand government Yashpal Arya on Monday joined the Congress party ahead of the Assembly polls. His son Sanjeev also joined the grand old party in the presence of dormer CM Harish Rawat and All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary KC Venugopal in Delhi. Uttarakhand will go to the polls early next year. 
A day after Union Power Minister RK Singh ruled out any energy crisis in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has claimed that most of the power plants in the national capital are facing coal shortage and that stock is left for only 2-3 days.
In a bizarre development, public sector lender, Union Bank of India had mandated a section of its staffers compulsorily adhere to a special 'Navratri' dress code or be ready to cough out fines. The detailed order came vide a colourful circular issued on October 1 by the Digitisation Department, at the Central Office in Mumbai, signed by General Manager, A. R. Raghavendra.
Amid a possible power crisis in the wake of reports of coal shortage in the country, Maharashtra government has urged citizens to to use power carefully and save electricity. As many as 13 thermal power generation plants supplying power to the state power distribution company MahaVitaran have been shut down, due to shortage of coal.
The higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh witnessed the season's first snowfall on Monday as the minimum temperatures dropped all across the two union territories. The Met Office said that snowfall was reported in Zojila Pass, Gulmarg ski resort and other higher reaches.
India on Monday saw a decline in its daily Covid-19 cases as per the daily data by the Union ministry of health. India reported as many as 18,132 new Covid cases in 24 hours. While in the last 24 hours, India reported 193 deaths, taking the toll to 3,39,71,607.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...
