Supreme Court stayed till Nov 18 a Mumbai college’s circular banning students from wearing hijab, cap or badge but allowed the educational institution to continue enforcing its circular banning wearing of burqa, niqab or stole in its premises.

Rain fury in the north left 31 people dead on Sunday across Rajasthan, Himachal, UP and Punjab, where nine from an extended family were washed away after their car sank in a stream. At least eight people were missing in the four states.Rajasthan,...

India’s first international university for the blind will come up in Odisha, providing education and technical courses, officials said.

 Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee contacted her Odisha counterpart Mohan Charan Majhi, urging his intervention following reports of Bengali speaking workers being assaulted and labelled as “Bangladeshis” by local vigilante groups in his...

Kolkata Police DCP Indira Mukherjee, who is heading a special inquiry team (SIT) probing sexual abuse charges against Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose brought by a former Raj Bhavan staffer, will be awarded a police medal.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, veteran Left leader and former West Bengal Chief Minister, died at his south Kolkata residence

The Centre has threatened to cancel more national highway projects in Punjab in case the situation, which it termed as “worsening”, does not improve. Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has written a demi-official letter...

The crest gate of the Tungabhadra Dam in Karnataka was washed away due to a broken chain link, creating significant flood risks for Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. Officials reported that gate number 19 was lost to the force of the...

A 70-year-old man was murdered in rural Bengaluru district allegedly because his advice against spitting on the road didn’t sit well with the killer

From the coming Independence Day, daily greetings in Haryana schools will acquire a patriotic flavour. Instead of “Good Morning”, students will greet each other and their teachers with “Jai Hind”