A Saudi prince arrested for criticising a crackdown on corruption is reported to have been freed from detention, authorities said on Sunday. ...
My own experience of Sabarimala causes me to rub my eyes with disbelief at the spectacle of what poet Niaz Haider called "badsoorat siyasat", not quite the same as ugly politics. I owe my visit to Sabarimala in 1982 entirely to Bob Murari, the distinguished IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre who, along with his brother...
Novak Djokovic edged Swiss veteran Roger Federer in full sets in a spotlight semifinal duel to set up his encounter against unseeded Russian Karen Khachanov at the ATP Paris Masters here....
Police in New York closed several streets due to a suspicious package in the commercial area of Herald Square in Manhattan, which turned out to be abandoned luggage....
The Congress on Saturday released its first list of 155 candidates for the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections. ...
Kerala's Sabarimala town where the famed Lord Ayyappa shrine is located came under complete police control on Saturday ahead of its day-long opening on November 5, a senior official said....
Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti on Saturday said it cannot wait for courts to decide on the Ram temple in Ayodhya and that the Centre should enact a law to build it, it said in a statement....
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for running an overcentralised and inefficient government....
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the two "non-electables", to use Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's term, are among the Hindutva groups which are pushing for immediately starting the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya....
Amid reports of alleged stripping of girls after the discovery of a sanitary pad in a toilet, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday ordered transfer of two teachers of a Fazilka government school pending an inquiry. ...
