Emergency

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee warned of a ‘super emergency’ under the BJP government at the Centre. read more

Facebook’s Local Alerts, which it has been testing since last year in 300 US cities, is intended to provide reliable information to people caught up in events such as mass shootings and extreme weather. read more

The state animal husbandry department has identified 349 vulnerable areas in which 80 mobile care centres and 80 call centres will be established. read more

The former president’s political career began in 1969 and there was no looking back after that. He has been a member of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and has held top posts of Defence Minister, Finance Minister, External Affairs Minister, Leader of... read more

Home Minister Amit Shah attacked the Congress during the debate telling the party to look at ‘its past’ before accusing the government of misusing the law. read more

Although most of the evacuees were later allowed to return home, the blaze more than tripled in size to spread over about 9,000 acres (3,642 hectares), scorching mostly former sugarcane fields and brush. read more

Nitish Kumar’s statement came when he intervened during a reply by a minister to a question on police action in the state. read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed Lok Sabha during his reply to a discussion. read more

Speaking in the state Assembly during the Question hour, Fadnavis said “pension was an honour more than money” for those who served jail term during the Emergency. read more

According to the BMC, the walkie-talkies will be given to the officials concerned and engineers of the dumping ground so that they will be able to remain connected 24x7 in case of any untoward incident. read more

Doctors make you worry too much about dietary cholesterol. They should be focusing on Vitamin D deficiency, the real health emergency read more

The government has decided to gazette the clauses related to prevention of terrorism to emergency regulation and gazette it by midnight, Sri Lanka president’s media unit said in a statement. read more

Senior SP leader Reoti Raman Singh, in an interview with HT, spoke about deterioration in politics and the missing essence of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the Bharatiya Janata Party. read more

A nonprofit sued to block President Donald Trump from diverting funds from the federal budget to spend about $8 billion on his promised border wall, hours after he declared a national emergency. read more

A national emergency would allow Trump to proceed with a wall without congressional approval and give him executive powers to reallocate disaster relief funds to the southern Mexico border. read more