Breaking News, February 25 | HIGHLIGHTS

Ahead of the simultaneous Odisha Assembly and Lok Sabha polls, former minister and four-time BJD legislator Debasis Nayak, and ex-Congress MLA Nihar Ranjan Mohananda on Sunday joined the BJP. They were inducted into the BJP in the presence of party state president Manmohan Samal, former president Samir Mohanty and other senior leaders.

A two-year-old girl child is suspected to have been mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs in Tughlaq Lane's Dhobhi Ghat area, police on Sunday said. The incident took place around 6 pm on Saturday when the girl child was sitting outside her house, they said.

Amid the unfolding Paytm Payments Bank Ltd crisis, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India President Ranjeet Kumar Agarwal on Sunday said its financial reporting review board (FRRB) may deliberate on issues of the fintech firm in the near future.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday asked BJP workers to resolve to give the Narendra Modi government a third term at the Centre with more than 400 seats, asserting that the upcoming Lok Sabha polls was about making India a superpower and the world's third largest economy.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar is scheduled to address the ongoing budget session of the Mizoram Assembly on Monday, a senior official said. State Assembly Commissioner and Secretary Vanlalthantlingi said that the Vice President will address the House around 12.45 pm after attending the convocation of Mizoram University (MZU) at Tanhril on the western outskirts of Aizawl.

The body of a 25-year-old construction company worker was found hanging in a village in Shamli district on Sunday, police said. SHO of the local Babri police station Rajendra Sharma said Chhotu Kumar is suspected to have died by suicide.

Congress leader Manish Tewari on Sunday dismissed the BJP's 370 seats pitch for the Lok Sabha polls as "hubris and arrogance" and claimed that there was "pain and misery" on the ground after 10 years of the Narendra Modi government.

The Assam government is planning to stop teachers' recruitment in colleges and merge those or certain departments of such institutions, where student enrolment is less, Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists on Sunday demanded a high-level probe into alleged Class 10 state board exam question paper leak.

In a boost to the ruling BJP in Arunachal Pradesh ahead of polls, two Congress MLAs and as many legislators from the National Peoples’ Party (NPP) joined the ruling BJP on Sunday.

Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Sunday alleged that Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was conspiring to sabotage protests staged by the community for reservation in government jobs and education.

The BJP and the ruling Congress -- the key contenders in the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka -- are grappling with the challenges of finding winning candidates in several constituencies with stakes high for the two national parties. The BJP had swept the 2019 general elections, bagging 25 of the total 28 seats in the state, while an independent backed by the party had also emerged victorious.

The 110th edition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ begins

 The national capital on Sunday recorded a minimum temperature of 8.3 degrees Celsius, four notches below of the season's average, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday thanked the Manipuri community for playing a vital role in building the state. Sarma was responding to a social media post by Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh who congratulated him for including Manipuri as an associate official language in four districts of Assam.

Three people were rescued after a major fire broke out in a house in southeast Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area in the early hours of Sunday, officials said.

A K Choudhary, a 1991-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission, an official said on Sunday.

Three Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Sunday morning, a senior police official said.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Cricketer Shikhar Dhawan flag off the 'Gurugram Marathon 2024'

Former president Donald Trump cast November's presidential election as "judgment day" and declared himself a "proud political dissident" during a speech before conservative activists outside of Washington Saturday as he again cloaked his campaign in religious imagery.