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The Centre was looking into representation with regard to continuation of studies of Indian students evacuated from war-hit Ukraine, Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court on Monday.

Amid allegations of fake ex-gratia claims for COVID-19 deaths, the Supreme Court on Monday hinted at ordering random checks to ascertain the veracity of the claims processed by states.

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at its office here for about eight hours on Monday in a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal.

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear on March 25 the plea seeking review of the sentence awarded by it in May 2018 to cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in a 1988 road rage case.

Several Opposition leaders on Monday praised the work of Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari but flagged some concerns over issues such as quality of roads, their maintenance and alleged lack of transparency in toll collection.

Recruitment in the Indian Army has remained suspended mainly to curb the spread of COVID-19 and the government has not stopped it, Parliament was informed on Monday.

The BJP's legislature party here on Monday chose Pushkar Singh Dhami is new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.

UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar on Monday said the central universities will have to use Common University Entrance Test (CUET) scores to admit students to undergraduate programmes.

India has received praise from across the board for many of its foreign policy initiatives, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Monday, a day after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan lauded India for its independent foreign policy.

The Special Cell of Delhi Police has filed a 1040-page chargesheet in the Rohini Court IED explosion case, a police official said on Monday.

BJP legislature party leader N Biren Singh was Monday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Manipur for the second time at the Raj Bhavan here.

Over 95 per cent of villages in the country have secondary schools within a distance of five kilometres, Union Minister of State for Education Annapurna Devi said on Monday.

The Aam Aadmi Party has nominated former cricketer Harbhajan Singh, Lovely Professional University founder Ashok Mittal, AAP MLA Raghav Chadha, IIT Delhi faculty Sandeep Pathak and industrialist Sanjeev Arora for the March 31 Rajya Sabha polls.

Director SS Rajamouli's magnum opus ‘RRR’ is all set to hit the big screen on March 25. Ahead of its grand release, Rajamouli, Jr NTR and Ram Charan made way to the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Monday.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday expressed his understanding of India’s position on the crisis in Ukraine, and he and PM Narendra Modi felt that the conflict should not be a reason for diverting attention from the Indo-Pacific, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said.

A Qatar Airways flight from New Delhi to Doha made an emergency landing early Monday in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi after it developed a “technical fault”, according to officials.

A Supreme Court-appointed panel to study the three farm laws, which was scrapped by Parliament in November last year, had recommended that the three legislations should not be repealed saying they would be beneficial to farmers.

Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Monday said the past five years in the state had seen a serious disconnect between people and the government.

The Una police are raiding parts of Haryana and UP to locate the firms from where chemicals were procured to prepare explosives that were being used in an illegal fire cracker factory in Bathri of the district, where a blast claimed the lives of 12 labourers.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday praised India for following an “independent foreign policy”. “I salute India for always maintaining independent foreign policy,” he said.

The AAP on Monday announces new office-bearers in nine states, IIT Delhi professor Sandeep Pathak replaces Raghav Chadha as Punjab co-in-charge

IIT Delhi assistant professor Sandeep Pathak, Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab co-in-charge Raghav Chadha and ex-spinner Harbhajan Singh are all set to file nominations for three of the five Rajya Sabha seats falling vacant from Punjab and set for elections on March 31.

As many as 29 antiquities, including on the themes of Lord Shiva and his disciples, Lord Vishnu and the Jain tradition have been repatriated to India by Australia and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inspected them, government sources said on Monday.

India saw a single-day rise of 1,549 new coronavirus infections, taking the infection tally to 4,30,09,390, while the active cases have further declined to 25,106, the Union health ministry said on Monday.

A Qatar Airways Delhi-Doha flight was diverted to Karachi on Monday after it declared an emergency due to indication of smoke in the cargo hold, the airline said.