India should retain its historical identity instead of emulating other countries in order to avoid being ridiculed on a global stage, Mohan Bhagwat said, at the launch of the book, 'Connecting with the Mahabharata’.

The deceased was identified as Shaik Jamal Saheb, an agriculturist of Bopparam village. “We have launched a manhunt for the accused, whose details are not immediately known,” Mudigonda police station sub-inspector Thota Nagaraju told HT.

Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha will inaugurate Kashmir’s first multiplex in Srinagar on Tuesday, people familiar with the matter said.

Between now and April 2024, biennial elections for 12 Rajya Sabha seats from four states will be held. The seat position of Goa, Delhi and Sikkim will remain unchanged, but West Bengal will add one seat to the tally of the BJP.

Noted illustrator Jayachandran Nanu, who drew for Wknd, the weekend section of Hindustan Times and also sketched the weekly Fault-Line cartoon for the editorial page, died on Monday after a brief illness. He was 58.

The IAS officer contended that there was no evidence to prove that he was drunk at the time of the accident on August 3, 2019 that claimed the life of KM Basheer

Congress president Sonia Gandhi met Shashi Tharoor who visited her residence on Monday, weeks after expressing concerns about “transparency and fairness” in the party chief’s election

The Delhi high court has held that Delhi judicial service officers cannot be included in the category of central officers (group A) category for reservation in educational institutions.

According to senior CCB officials, permission was sought under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act on September 15 to seize the property of Mruthyunjaya alias MJ, 53, a drug peddler from Kolar’s Malur taluk.