A local court has ordered to frame charges against a Ranchi-based company Domco Private Ltd and five other individuals accused in a coal block allocation case. ....

Delhi University's well-known Miranda House officially frowned upon the visiting correspondence course students taking selfies and brushing their hair in college corridors, and has invited notice from the Delhi Commission for Women for "discriminatory practices". ....

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has lauded the Delhi government for providing free primary health care through Mohalla Clinics -- an initiative that is "consistent with the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goal" of the World Health Organization. ....

Proceedings at the Jammu and Kashmir assembly were disrupted on Friday as legislators from both the treasury and opposition benches created a din over the government's "failure to restore electricity supply in the valley during snowfalls". ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested him to postpone the presentation of the general budget in view of the assembly elections. ....

A leading group of traders in Tamil Nadu is going "swadeshi" -- by boycotting Coke and Pepsi from March 1. ....

The AAP is "comfortable" with Delhi's new Lt Governor Anil Baijal and is also confident of winning assembly elections in both Punjab and Goa, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia says. ....

The ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) on Thursday released its fifth list of 12 candidates for the seven-phase Uttar Pradesh assembly polls to be held between February 11 and March 8. ....

Two children were killed and at least 20 others injured as lightning struck parts of Rajasthan on Thursday, police said. ....

The situation in West Bengal's Bhangar, which was on the boil last week due to violent protests over the "forcible land acquisition" for a power grid project, became tense again on Thursday as villagers protested the arrest of a woman CPI-ML Red Star leader. ....