Onions prices have been pinching the pockets of consumers across country. With the supply of onions from flood-hit states like Maharashtra affected, they are being sold at higher rates in many parts of the country, with prices varying in 60-80 per kg in retail markets.Read News

With all humility and with a prayerful disposition to Lord Jagannath of Puri temple, the Odisha Government headed by Mr Naveen Patnaik has taken measures to clear commercial buildings and centuries old dilapidated structures around 75 meters of the sacred shrine.Read News

The Election Commission on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it would defer the upcoming by-polls to 15 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka. The bypolls were scheduled for October 21, with the counting of votes to be held three days later. The statement by EC's council came after a 3-judge bench headed by Justice N V Ramana said that it would decide on the batch of petitions filed by 17 diRead News

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Saturday teared into Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Centre after a farmers' rally was not allowed to enter the national capital earlier in the day. Farmers had started the march from Saharanpur in UP on September 11 to present their demands, like loan waiver and settlement of sugarcane arrears. However, they were stopped at the Ghazipur border.Read News

Jharkhand has become the launching pad for national level schemes. In September last year, the world's biggest health scheme Ayushman Bharat was launched from the same Prabhat Tara ground. Today three national level schemes have been launched. This will give a new identity to Jharkhand", said Modi.Read News

Himanshu Rai is an eminent scholar of Yoga and Adhyatma. He is working to spread the Indian culture all over the world. People say that one day a person misses his roots but only a few people are able to do something for their native village. He wants to take his village to a standstill with the library at Himanshu Rai village school, launch of bus service from remote village to Gorakhpur and organize health camps etc. in theRead News

Karnataka has been atypical - it has not returned the ruling party to power in the last three decades. The big question now is, will chief minister Siddaramaiah buck this trend. Read News

The much awaited Gujarat verdict is pronounced and BJP has romped home with a wafer thin majority thereby creating history in India's electoral journey by winning six consecutive elections. The political pundits/analysts' are interpreting the result as per their convenience and understanding.Read News

During his campaign for the 2017 Gujarat elections, Rahul Gandhi's temple run mostly skirted areas where the minority vote lay. Even when passing through such areas, he breezed through, waving at crowds from his vehicle. Read News

Winston Churchill's observation that America can be depended upon to do the right thing after it has tried all the other alternatives is applicable to most countries. Read News

The biggest challenge and the top priority in Kashmir are to deradicalize Kashmiri youth and militants and prevent it from turning into a Syria of India, says Dineshwar Sharma, the newly-named interlocutor for talks in Jammu and Kashmir.Read News

Nitish Kumar in his earlier stint as the chief minister, had become a larger than life figure because of his success in controlling lawlessness in the state and preparing the ground for development. As a result, he was even seen as a possible player on the national stage.Read News