East India

One year after violence during Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested 16 Muslims, accused of 'conspiring and carrying out a communal attack' during a Ram Navami procession in the Dalkhola area of West Bengal's Uttar Dinajpur district in March last year.

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday urged the State to consider renaming the lioness named 'Sita,' a revered goddess among Hindus, and the lion named Akbar to avoid ‘controversy’.

Angry about being targeted with a "Khalistani" remark, a Sikh IPS officer responded to West Bengal BJP leaders, including Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, urging them to refrain from stereotyping and respect his faith.

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) is planning to field more candidates from the Seemanchal region of Bihar in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, party chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said on Saturday.

The Supreme Court on Friday took cognizance of the issue of some women prisoners lodged in West Bengal’s correctional homes getting pregnant. This comes after the Calcutta High Court...

On Wednesday, the opposition in the Chhattisgarh assembly created an uproar in the state assembly over the cutting of more than 15,000 trees in the biodiversity-rich Hasdeo Aranya region...

Hemant Soren, the Chief Minister of Jharkhand and leader of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), was arrested on Wednesday night following over seven hours of interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate regarding purported land ownership.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate this evening, minutes after quitting the post. Transport minister Champai Soren, one of the veteran leaders of the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, will step into his shoes.

"It seems we made a tired CM (Nitish Kumar) work. The game is not over yet," Tejashwi Yadav, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader, told reporters today.

Nitish Kumar took oath as NDA Chief Minister of the state, for the ninth time, at Raj Bhawan today. Two Deputy CMs from BJP Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, and six other ministers also took the oath today.

Speaking to reporters outside the Raj Bhavan, Nitish said that a new alliance will be formed. He added that things were “not working out” in the Opposition’s INDIA alliance and he decided to resign because things were not good.

In Bihar's Darbhanga district, during a Hindu procession celebrating the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple, a firecracker was thrown into a Muslim graveyard in Khirma village.