
Terming the opposition grand alliance as a "failed idea", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the the BJP-led NDA will definitely get more seats in the next Lok Sabha polls than it got in 2014 and break all records. ...

Nobel Prize-winning writer V.S. Naipaul, known for his celebrated works like "An Area of Darkness" and "A House for Mr Biswas", has died at age 85. The literary fraternity mourned his passing and said his rich legacy will live on for generations to come....
Amid the growing debate over whether electronic voting machines (EVMs) are hackable or not, elections officials in the US are worried over the increasing "information warfare" as mid-term polls loom. ...

The water level in Kerala's Idukki dam further decreased on Sunday and now stands at 2,399.28 feet even as parts of Ernakulam and Thrissur districts still remain submerged....

Nobel Prize-winning novelist V.S. Naipaul, who explored questions of place and identity for more than half a century, has died aged 85, his family announced on Sunday. ...

Indians are one of the fastest-growing groups of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican border to enter the tiny town of El Centro, California, according to a report in Fox news....
A day after the Maharashtra ATS arrested three men affiliated to radical Hindu outfits for plotting terror attacks, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Saturday asked if the RSS and BJP would condemn those outfits....
The airline employee who stole a plane on Friday in Seattle and crashed soon afterward did not have any links to terrorist organizations and was seeking to commit suicide, the FBI said on Saturday....

Punjab minister and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan as the new prime minister for which he has received an invitation....

NASA is targeting Sunday for the launch of its historic small car-size probe to "touch the Sun" from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida after its scheduled launch on Saturday got scrubbed....