Prime Minster Narendra Modi is learnt to have expressed displeasure over the absence of some Cabinet ministers during Question Hour, sources in the government said on Thursday. The prime minister flagged the absence of some ministers during Question Hour in both Houses of Parliament after the meeting of the Union Cabinet on Wednesday evening the sources said.

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday attacked Union home minister Amit Shah over the issue of National Register of Citizens (NRC), saying he is now stressing on implementing it across the country to avoid embarrassment following failure of the exercise in Assam.

More than 200 economists and academicians have asked the government to release data of all surveys and reports, including results of the Consumer Expenditure Survey 2017-18, completed by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO).

Amid debate on increasing the retirement age of judges of higher judiciary, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde said on Thursday that they are «willing to work» longer if the superannuation age is raised.

The Congress should not back the Shiv Sena and the NCP in government formation in Maharashtra if it is not going to get the chief minister's post on a rotational basis, Union minister Ramdas Athawale said on Thursday.

Hitting back at the Congress over the issue of electoral bonds, the BJP said on Thursday said «the alliance of the defeated and the dejected corrupt politicians» do not want clean, tax-paid transparent money to fund elections. The Congress has sought an inquiry by a joint parliamentary committee into these «opaque» donations.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday wrote to Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on the death of a schoolgirl bitten by a snake inside her classroom, stating that the school's «crumbling infrastructure» needed urgent attention of the state government.

The Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission on Thursday submitted a report to CM Yogi Adityanath, suggesting a new law to check forcible religious conversions. The report was prepared after going through pre and post-independence laws in the country and neighbouring countries like Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Pakistan besides keeping in mind court judgments.

«Everyone wanted a Ram temple in Ayodhya but the Congress kept stalling the case,» Shah told election rallies in Manika and Lohardaga, as he kicked off the BJP's campaign for the Jharkhand assembly polls. He also accused the Congress of delaying a solution to the Kashmir issue for seven decades.

A satellite-based climatological study has found that farm fire occurrences increased by 4% over Punjab and Haryana regions during October-November in 10 years between 2007 and 2017. The model-based analysis suggests that there is a high probability of transportation of smoke aerosols from Punjab and Haryana, towards down-wind regions of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Union minister for department of atomic energy Jitendra Singh on Wednesday assured the Lok Sabha that the Kudankulam nuclear plant is safe from cyber attacks and that the government is making a special storage arrangement for nuclear waste fuel from the Tamil Nadu plant.

Family members of some of the 33 political detenues in Jammu & Kashmir currently lodged at Srinagar’s MLA Hostel arrived at the facility with heating equipment on Wednesday as a mark of protest against the administration.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, setting off a wave of speculation as the discussion came at a time when NCP, Congress and Shiv Sena are engaged in a protracted exercise of forming an alliance and a government in Maharashtra.