Former Union Minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand on Wednesday claimed that the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by a law student were part of a conspiracy hatched against him. ...
The new British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the House of Commons that the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir following the lockdown of the region by the Modi government for over four weeks is "an international issue"....
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested former Karnataka minister and senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar in a money laundering case, officials said....
The Congress here on Tuesday sought to draw a parallel between the "witch-hunt" of former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram by the Narendra Modi government, and that of the family and aides of former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar by the BJP-led coalition government in Goa as alleged by Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Atmaram Nadkarni....
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is gearing to take on rebels in his Conservative Party over Brexit, has lost his parliamentary majority with a party MP defecting on Tuesday, reports said. ...
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah here to discuss issues of national and state security, besides urging him to take up with Pakistan the case of forcible conversion of a Sikh girl to Islam. ...
The Congress high command is on tenterhooks as the ongoing power struggle between Madhya Pradesh Congress leaders Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh over the selection of a new state party president threatens the very existence of the party in the state....
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The Madhya Pradesh government has agreed to review the rehabilitation issue afresh as a pre-condition for the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar to end her indefinite fast....
Two Pakistani nationals nabbed by the Army on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC) were to guide a large group of terrorists to infiltrate into J&K for disrupting peace in the aftermath of the abrogation of Article 370 and division of the State into two Union Territories, Defence sources said....