Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, sacked from the post in October, was sworn in again on Sunday by President Maithripala Sirisena, a move that ended a nearly two-month political crisis which erupted after his surprising dismissal....
So effective has been the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) saffronisation of the atmosphere that even Communists shy away from discussing minorities. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to build 10 Sun temples. Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav will build a Vishnu temple. There is, of course, the biggest temple ...
India has expressed its reservation over the lack of equity in the rules relating to global stock-take in the rulebook that implements the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. ...
A shutdown called by separatists on Sunday to protest the civilian killings a day before in Pulwama district, has paralysed life across the Kashmir Valley....
On the occasion of Vijay Diwas, President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday remembered soldiers of the Indian Armed Forces who lost their lives during the 1971 India-Pakistan War. ...
The West Bengal government on Saturday rejected the BJP's application for holding "Rath Yatra and/or Ganatantra Bachao yatra" in the state saying there was a "grave apprehension of major breach of peace and communal violence during and in the aftermath" of the programme....
Speaking to the media here, Ananya, one of the four, said that they were subjected to ridicule, threats and was asked to return by the police at Erumely, the first base camp at the temple town....
President Donald Trump's budget director and his pick to be the acting Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, once called Trump "a terrible human being" during a campaign debate in 2016....
The favourable signals were there from the party's earlier by-election victories in the two states. But despite the Congress's latest success, what must be worrying for the party is that it missed losing by a hair's breadth, given how close the voting percentages were for the two contenders - 39.3 per cent for the Congress in Rajasthan against 38.8 for the ...
Bhupesh Baghel, who is credited with playing a crucial role in a landslide victory of the Congress in Chhattisgarh, is understood to have been picked as the partys choice for Chief Ministership and a formal announcement in this regard is expected on Sunday....
