Differences over the issue of electoral understanding with the Congress dominated the proceedings of the national conclave of the Communist Party of India-(Marxist on Thursday as it began discussion on the draft political resolution. ...
Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba's 57-year-old first Vice President and Communist Party loyalist, replaced Raul Castro as the country's new President on Thursday....
Former Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar is slated to join Tata Sons as its head of global strategy and has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a waiver of the mandatory cooling-off period for bureaucrats seeking commercial employment, well-informed sources said on Thursday....
Srinivas Loya, the brother of Judge B.H. Loya, declined to comment on the Supreme Court order on Thursday dismissing a petition seeking a SIT probe into the death of Judge Loya, saying "it's futile"....
Terming the Supreme Courts decision in special CBI judge B.H. Loyas death case as "unfortunate", the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Thursday demanded that the case be heard by a larger bench of the apex court. "The Supreme Court's rejection of all petitions demanding an independent probe into the death of Judge Loya and holdi...
The Supreme Court website crashed on Thursday amid reports that some Brazilian hackers may have targeted it. "Site under maintenance," read the message on the landing page of supremecourtofindia.nic.in. "This site can't be reached," said another message on the page of the website maintained by the government-run National Informatics Centre (NIC) that...
Pakistan on Thursday rejected as "false" and "baseless" Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claims of having launched a surgical strike on terrorist camps in Pakistani territory. At an interactive session at the Central Hall Westminster in London, Modi said on Wednesday that Islamabad was informed about the 2016 surgical strike before...
A minor tribal girl was raped in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, police said on Thursday. The girl was raped by an auto driver when she was returning home with her family after attending a religious event late on Wednesday, said police. Since the accused was known to the family, after dropping them at their house, he took the girl to a secluded spot on the pretext of...
Human-wildlife conflict turned ugly in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit Tiger Reserve after villagers beat a tiger to death and slit its throat, officials said on Thursday. The feline was slaughtered two-and-a-half kilometres inside the tiger reserve's core area under Mahof range, officials told IANS. The killed cat was an adult male. The carcass was recovered on...
President Ram Nath Kovind has praised the the people of Jammu and Kashmir for their commitment towards tolerance despite heavy odds. Speaking at a civic reception in his honour on Wednesday, the President recalled the days when he visited the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine on foot and shopped in Srinagar's city centre Lal Chowk as a commoner. "Jammu and Kashmir i...
