Politics

Federal regulators are considering allowing state prisons across the country more technological options to combat contraband cellphones, which prison officials have long said represent the greatest security threat behind bars.

Major business and union groups have formed a new coalition designed to add momentum for a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package that the Senate is expected to take up this month.

Bureaucrat entrepreneur turned politician Vaishnaw, 51, took charge as the country's new Railway Minister, while Thakur who was elevated as Information and Broadcasting Minister also assumed office.

Former PM Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and several chief ministers and union ministers were among those who remembered the veteran leader.

Virbhadra Singh, who dominated the political space in Himachal for almost six decades that saw the Congress stalwart remain a union minister for that long a period, became an MP at the young age of 28 in 1962.

Shantanu Thakur, a influential Matua ‘dharma guru’, tribal leader John Barla, 35-year-old Nisith Pramanik and Dr Subhas Sarkar were inducted into Modi's Cabinet.

Chirag, who is locked in a bitter feud with his uncle over struggle for power since his father --- Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan--- passed away, said he had written to the Election Commission about Paras and would write to PM Modi to convey the same.

Ramesh Bais from appointed governor of Tripura in 2019 after Modi-led BJP formed government at the Centre for the second time. He succeeded Kaptan Singh Solanki.

A few days ago, the Congress MP was also seen speaking up in favor of Mamata Banerjee during the fake vaccination row in Kolkata.

Congress sought to know that in an inter-governmental defence deal when the beneficiary of any 'corruption' has ordered a probe, why has a country, which has lost public money, not ordered one?

Ajay Kumar Lallu said the Congress has emerged as the main challenger to the "oppressive" UP government.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma will not have to hand himself over to police on Sunday to start the 15-month jail sentence imposed on him by the country's apex court for contempt, after he consistently refused to appear at the Commission of Inqu...

Salma Luvano was arrested for publicly identifying herself as transgender in provincial Mexico in 1985. Now she is set to take office as a member of Congress.

President Joe Biden signed three separate laws Wednesday that dismantle part of the Trump era, blocking payday lenders from avoiding caps on interest rates, restricting climatewarming greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas drilling and ending rules on...

Brishaketu Debbarma, an MLA of the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT) who represents Simna constituency, on Tuesday, submitted his resignation to the speaker Rebatimohan Das. Das confirmed receipt of the resignation letter from the IPFT MLA.

Navjot Sidhu's team announced on Monday that he would meet with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday.