The Latest Breaking News from New Delhi

NEW DELHI: Wrestler Vinesh Phogat will return to the competitive mat after almost seven months since her disastrous Tokyo Olympics campaign - she lost in the quarterfinals. She will take part at the United World Wrestling's (UWW) Yasar Dogu international meet in Istanbul from February 24 to 27, TOI has…

KOLKATA: Airlines officials on Monday greeted the state government’s decision to remove restrictions on flights from Delhi and Mumbai to Kolkata but said that normal operations would resume only from Wednesday or Thursday onwards as changes in schedules required to reinstate the flights would take some time.

KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she had blocked governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Twitter to protest against his “unconstitutional and unethical acts”, which were encouraging “BJP goondas” to kill Trinamool workers.

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday said members of all political parties have assured him of cooperation in the running of the House and hoped that Parliament will function smoothly during the Budget session.

NEW DELHI: With only 10 sittings of Parliament possible until February 11, the concluding day of the first part of the Budget session, the government has said no legislative business will be taken up in both Houses of Parliament during this period.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged all MPs to make the Budget session of Parliament fruitful by holding discussions with an "open mind" and making sure that the ongoing assembly elections do not affect the session, which is very important as it draws a blueprint for the…

NEW DELHI: Allowing a physical poll campaign to begin across the five poll-bound states from Tuesday in view of the flattening curve of Covid infections, the Election Commission on Monday allowed in-person public meetings in open spaces subject to a cap of 1,000 participants, up from 500 earlier, while also…

NEW DELHI: A day after Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury served a notice for breach of privilege against IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for allegedly misleading Parliament over the Pegasus issue, more MPs belonging to Congress, Left and Trinamool followed suit on Monday, setting the stage for another confrontation in the…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday protected SAD functionary Bikram Singh Majithia from arrest in a drug trafficking case till February 23 and told the Charanjit Singh Channi-led Congress government in Punjab that in a democracy governments must not slap election-eve criminal cases on political opponents to prevent them…

NEW DELHI: Strong exports, capital inflows, low current account deficit and high forex reserves makes India better prepared to face external shocks, the Economic Survey said on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Manika Batra has jumped six places to enter the top-50 of the women's singles world rankings for the first time.