India

Armed forces personnel will be able to caste their votes by using electronic postal ballot facility for the first time in the country in the upcoming Punjab Assembly polls, state Chief Electoral Officer V K Singh said on Tuesday.

Seven Tamil Nadu fishermen were arrested by Sri Lankan Naval personnel for allegedly fishing near Neduntheevu in the island nation.

Income Tax sleuths on Monday conducted searches at the residential and official premises of a local BJP leader Sushil Vaswani.

Meghna Bhargav, a 26-year-old native of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh was arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida for conning eleven grooms before the long hands of the law caught up with her.

33-year-old cashier with the State Bank of India allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his residence at Tharad in Banaskantha district, police said.

In the last ten days, more than three dozen people have died in road accidents across Bihar due to dense fog.

Police of Hyderabad arrested four people including an Anti Corruption Bureau home guard for looting cash from two businessmen after promising commission for exchanging demonetised currency with new notes.

The axe, being carried by the woman, was detected during the X-ray scanning of her bag by the CISF jawan when she entered the Hauz Khas Metro station. He allowed her to carry the axe considering its small size and her pleas that she is a poor labourer and...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tributes on Vijay Diwas to soldiers who died during the 1971 India-Pakistan war.

In a bid to intensify the digital payments, the government on Thursday launched two incentive schemes for both consumers and merchants.

After the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, the matter was already under the consideration of the government.

In yet another clarification on the government's demonetisation drive aimed to curb black money, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that the move towards a cashless economy is actually a "less cash economy" as no economy can be fully cashless.

The cash flow situation in the country is improving by the day and the focus now is on printing more Rs 500 notes, Economic Affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das said on Thursday.

The Supreme Court on Thursday held that personnel working in the Indian Air Force cannot sport a beard based on religious grounds.

For the first time since the Winter Session began on November 16, Rajya Sabha today saw a legislative action as it passed the Bill in a cordial atmosphere.

Out of 11,65,904 RTI requests received in 2015-16, 64,666 (6.62 percent) were rejected, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh told the Lok Sabha.