Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Saturday announced another cabinet reshuffle, giving Prince Badr Bin Abdullah Al Saud the portfolio of the newly-established Ministry of Culture after extracting it from the Ministry of Information and Culture....
Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday claimed the significantly lower voting percentage was responsible for the BJP's defeat in two out of three Lok Sabha bypolls this week and said the party would introspect and analyse the reasons of the loss "up to the booth level"....
Amid reports of the possibility of preponing the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Election Commissioner of India Om Prakash Rawat on Saturday said the commission would abide by the law and can issue a notification for election to any house "not before six months" of the expiry of that house. ...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday threw his weight behind the farmers protesting nationwide ahead of the first anniversary of the deaths of seven farmers in police firing in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur on June 6 last year. ...
While there is little doubt that in Kairana, an alliance of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Congress led to the BJP's defeat, it is also undeniable that the combine wouldn't have worked if the Muslims, Dalits, backward castes and the Jats hadn't turned against the BJP....
Lower global crude oil cost, along with a strengthened rupee, pulled the prices of key transportation fuel -- petrol and diesel -- down by around nine paise in the four metro cities....
Hundreds of slogan-shouting residents on Saturday attended the funeral of a 21-year-old man who along with two others was injured on Friday when a paramilitary vehicle ran over protesters in an already volatile old Srinagar city....
Ruling out any possibility of bringing back ballot papers for elections, Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat on Saturday said the EVMs were being made a 'scapegoat' as the machines cannot speak and political parties needed to blame someone or something for their defeat....
President Donald Trump has announced that his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is back on track to take place as originally planned on June 12 in Singapore....
With a combined opposition having defeated the BJP in Uttar Pradesh's Kairana Lok Sabha and some other bypolls, the Congress has decided to step up efforts to prevent division of anti-BJP votes by seeking to identify the strongest candidate in each seat in the forthcoming electoral contests....
