Barely four months after taking oath as Uttarakhand's new chief minister, Tirath Singh Rawat on

Due to pandemic, Election Commission couldn't hold a by-election and a Chief Minister had to leave his office.... We'll also look into aspects of helping Swapnil Lonkar's family.... We'll try to make such atmosphere that no Swapnil will be forced to take such step." The 24-year-old Maharashtra government job aspirant allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in Pune's Hadapsar area on June 30, police earlier said....

the Centre decides," he added. The BJP high command had called on Tirath Rawat to Delhi on Thursday

elect the new chief minister of state, a day after Tirath Singh Rawat's resignation.... The meeting

Everything depends on the Election Commission of India," said Munna Singh Chauhan, BJP MLA from Vikasnagar and former spokesperson of the party's state unit. Rawat has little to worry if a bypoll is held but doubts are being cast on its constitutional feasibility as the current assembly completes its tenure in less than a year. There are two vacant assembly seats in Uttarakhand--Gangotri and Haldwani.... Subscribe to Mint Newsletters* Enter a valid email* Thank you for subscribing to our newsle

Ending weeks of speculation, late President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee, on Monday, joined the Trinamool Congress( TMC) in Kolkata.... Abhijit Mukherjee is a former Congress MP from West Bengal. The former Congress MP from Jangipur was in talks with the Trinamool leaders for the past few weeks....

The draft rules now propose penalties for violations.As per the draft rules, direct selling companies are banned from promoting a pyramid scheme and money circulation scheme.A pyramid is a multi-layered network of subscribers to a scheme formed by subscribers enrolling one or more subscribers in order to receive any benefit, directly or indirectly, for enrolment of additional subscribers to the scheme. Direct selling companies have to register themselves under relevant Indian laws and also with

Televised images showed family members wailing in the wards and nurses frantically pounding on the chests of some patients. All week, hospitals across India have been warning about an acute oxygen shortage.... As supplies of hospital beds, oxygen and vaccines run low, criticism of the government is building.In a televised address on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to be more careful but said that lockdowns were a last resort.... Photographs show a sea of worshipers packed to

NEW DELHI — When the coronavirus first struck India last year, the country enforced one of the world’s strictest national lockdowns.... Experts warned fruitlessly that the government’s haphazard approach would bring a crisis when a new wave appeared. Now the crisis is here. India on Friday reported a daily record of 131, 878 new infections as Covid-19 races out of control.... Deaths, while still relatively low, are rising....