Government News & Updates

DMK steps up seat-sharing discussions with allies

The talks between the DMK and the Left parties will resume on March 17; VCK leaders say at least 10 seats will justify the party’s strength and convince the cadre

Jaishankar hails talks with Iran to open Strait of Hormuz, says no “blanket arrangement” for Indian-flagged ships: report

Jaishankar said he was engaged in talks with Tehran and that “talking has yielded some results.”

10 patients killed, several others injured in major fire at Cuttack’s SCB Medical College Hospital

Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, who visited the hospital, ordered a judicial probe into the incident

Rajya Sabha elections LIVE: 3 INDIA Bloc MLAs 'missing' in Bihar Assembly as voting continues in Haryana, Odisha

Out of the 37 seats, 26 candidates have already secured victory unopposed

Odisha MLAs arrive in Bhubaneswar for crucial biennial Rajya Sabha elections

Five candidates are vying for four vacant seats amid massive allegations of poaching of MLAs

No Eid celebrations for Shias in MP in the wake of Khamenei's death in the Iran-Iraq War

"Around 4,000 Shia families are living in Madhya Pradesh. We will not wear new clothes or celebrate Eid this year as we are saddened by Khamenei's death. We will only offer namaz," says All India Shia...

Parliament Budget Session LIVE: Lok Sabha discusses Railways demands for Grants; Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2 p.m.

Trinamool Congress walks out of Rajya Sabha over EC's decision to remove Bengal's top bureaucrats

Watch: The ruling party and the opposition must rise above partisanship | The Hindu Editorial

The Lok Sabha rejected by voice vote, on March 11, a resolution under Article 94(C) of the Constitution for the removal of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla from office, but only after a hostile debate on th...

Election Commission removes Chief Secretary, Home Secretary in poll-bound West Bengal

Kolkata Police Commissioner, DGP West Bengal, and ADG Law and Order have also been transferred; ECI said its directions are to be implemented with immediate effect and asked for a report of the joinin...

Plugging in: Why India must electrify its kitchens at scale

An IEEFA study from October 2025 found that electric cooking is 37% cheaper than non-subsidised LPG and 14% cheaper than piped natural gas for a family of four in Delhi — without any electricity subsi...

Kerala Assembly polls: Congress throws weight behind former CPI(M) leader G. Sudhakaran in Ambalappuzha

Congress screening committee has decided not to field a party candidate in Ambalappuzha and to extend support to dissident CPI(M) leader G. Sudhakaran instead, according to sources

Kerala Assembly polls: Poster war erupts in UDF in Kasaragod ahead of candidate announcement

Posters, reportedly put up in the name of IUML workers, urge the party not to field him and accuse him of being an “imported” candidate

'Illegal' call centre case: Enforcement Directorate conducts raids in West Bengal

It was not immediately clear if the probe is linked to some political funding or inducements linked to the electoral process

Supreme Court asks NGO to voice concerns about mercury seepage from Bhopal gas tragedy waste’s residual ash before Madhya Pradesh High Court

NGO Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahyog Samiti urged the Supreme Court to check the filter bags and buried residual ash from the incineration of the waste to check the mercury content

Arunachal government transfers 27 senior police officers in major reshuffle

According to a notification, the reshuffle has been done to streamline police administration and bolster the law and order machinery in the northeastern State

Supreme Court quashes criminal proceedings against Ashoka University professor after Haryana refuses prosecution sanction

The Haryana Police had arrested professor Mahmudabad on May 18. It was alleged that his social media posts on Operation Sindoor had endangered the sovereignty and integrity of the country

Election Date 2026 Announcement Today Live Updates: CPI(M), CPI release first list of candidates for Kerala Assembly polls

In Bihar’s Saran, teen girl ‘pushed into a well’ by man she befriended on Instagram

Four states and 1 UT to go for polls: Check West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry Assembly election dates here

BJD steps up efforts to keep its flock united ahead of crucial Rajya Sabha polls in Odisha