The Latest Breaking News from New Delhi

NEW DELHI: The results of the assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh are likely to play out during the winter session of Parliament beginning Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: He may have last played red-ball cricket almost four years back, but Peter Handscomb is hopeful of finding a spot in the Australia squad that will tour India for a four-Test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in February-March next year.

NEW DELHI: A US-based scientist, Andrew Huff, who worked at a controversial research lab in China's Wuhan, has claimed that Covid-19 was a "man-made virus" that leaked from the facility.

NEW DELHI: Punjab’s Bhagwant Mann government on Monday conceded before the Supreme Court that the state faces a big challenge in tackling large number of illegal liquor manufacturing units and said though it has shut down over 13,000 such units in the past two months, new ones have sprung up.

NEW DELHI: Five-time champions Brazil showcased a performance worthy of their favourites tag to storm into the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar on Tuesday. Brazil outclassed South Korea 4-1 in their Round of 16 encounter at the Stadium 974 to set up a mouth-watering clash with…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the challenge to maintainability of a PIL seeking guidelines against religious conversions through fraud, deceit and allurement and said it would lay down general guidelines prohibiting use of charity as a tool for conversion.

The success of the G20 in Bali has turned President Widodo Joko into a global leader for overcoming divisions regarding the war in Ukraine. The G20 leaders' declaration was issued, surprising everyone. Behind the scenes, however, kudos went to India which helped draft the communique. Now, India, as the current…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking re-writing of the history of Taj Mahal, saying, 'Everything cannot be reopened after 400 years'. It also attempted to curb filing of frivolous PILs by imposing Rs 1 lakh cost on a petitioner seeking a declaration that…

NEW DELHI: In order to streamline the conduct of competitive examinations and avoid last-minute confusion, the government plans to have a fixed calendar for undergraduate admission tests like the joint entrance examination (JEE-Main), national eligibility-cum entrance test (NEET-UG) and common university entrance test (CUET-UG) from 2023. The ministry of education…

NEW DELHI: Chairing a meeting of leaders from all parties on India’s presidency of the G-20, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought their cooperation to make it a big success.

NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar strongly defended India’s oil imports from Russia after a meeting with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock saying Europe can't make choices in line with its energy needs priorities and asked India at the same time to do something else. Jaishankar said the EU had…