PM inaugurates Purvanchal Expressway, lands on it in IAF plane

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday accused the previous governments in Uttar Pradesh of letting poverty and the mafia take over the state's eastern part, saying that the Bharatiya Janata Party......

Lockdown in India impacted 40mn migrants: World Bank

The nationwide lockdown in India which started about a month ago has impacted nearly 40 million internal migrants, the World Bank has said. IMAGE: Migrant workers from Prayagraj on their way to......

Unable to get body home, migrant's family conducts dummy funeral

A year-old child lit his father's pyre in Gorakhpur last week, a poignant moment made heart-wrenching by the fact that the body wasn't there. It lay in a morgue, hundreds of kilometres away in......

Rains kill 7 in NE, over 4 L affected in Assam floods

Heavy monsoon showers triggered floods and landslides in parts of the Northeast, where at least seven people died on Friday and over four lakh in Assam were affected by a raging Brahmaputra, while......