The Supreme Court will hold further hearing on May 3, on Centre's plea seeking the recall of its judgement holding that arrest on a complaint under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is not mandatory. A bench headed by Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said that it would hear the Centre's plea after Attorney General K.K. Venugopal told the b...
Mike Pompeo was sworn in as the 70th US Secretary of State, after the Senate voted to confirm installing the former CIA Director as the nation's top diplomat, the media reported. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito administered the oath at 2 p.m. on Thursday, CNN quoted State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as saying. The Senate voted 57-42 t...
The Congress on Thursday complained to the Karnataka Police that the aircraft in which its party President Rahul Gandhi flew to Hubballi in the state earlier in the day suffered a snag mid-air. ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and hold free-flowing talks at Mao Zedong's villa in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. ...
Senior lawyer Indu Malhotra was sworn in on Friday as Supreme Court judge, amid raging controversy over the Narendra Modi government returning recommendation on Justice K.M. Joseph. ...
The leaders of North and South Korea on Friday created history by holding a summit that came after a gap of over a decade and declared to begin a new chapter in the inter-Korean ties....
An explosion broke out at an oil refinery in the US state of Wisconsin on Thursday, which resulted in at least multiple casualties, the media reported....
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked Narendra Modi government's foreign policy and said "new US visa rules is a huge setback for India"...
India and China will look to re-set their strained ties as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping meet each other at a two-day informal summit in the central Chinese city of Wuhan starting on Friday. The Asian giants, who fought a brief war in 1962 and have a history of mutual distrust, nearly came to an armed conflict ne...
West Bengal will have a single-phase panchayat (rural body) polls on May 14, the State Election Commission announced on Wednesday. Repolls, if needed, will be held on May 16. The counting will take place on May 17, the SEC said in a notification. The decision came after a recommendation from the state government that the polls be held on May 14. ...
