Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday dismissed Agriculture Minister Damodar Rout over his casteist remarks....
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Friday clashed with police in Ghaziabad over the marriage of a Hindu girl with a Muslim boy, which the activists described as a case of "love-jihad"....
The Madras High Court on Friday ordered notice to the Tamil Nadu government and the Corporation of Chennai while admitting the plea filed by a woman claiming to be the daughter of late Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. S. Amrutha approached the court with a plea to exhume Jayalalithaa's body for cremation and performing the ritu...
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday ordered the intelligence agencies to look for missing activist Raza Mehmood Khan and present him in court as soon as possible after the police stated that they were unable to find the activist. Justice Qazi Amin Ahmed conducted the third hearing in the case of Khan, who had gone missing fro...
The acquittal of DMK leaders Kanimozhi, daughter of party President M. Karunanidhi, and former Union Telecom Minister A. Raja, and others by a court in the 2G spectrum case has come as a big boost for the party and could lead to a political realignment in Tamil Nadu, especially with the ruling AIADMK a divided house, politic...
Two-time former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and suave Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor are likely to make it to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), either as permanent or special invitees to the party's highest decision-making body, according to the buzz in Congress circles in Kerala. Rahul Gandhi, who has taken over as party Pre...
The UN Security Council is expected to vote on a new draft resolution that would tighten sanctions against North Korea in response to its ballistic missile launch last month. A Security Council meeting has been scheduled for Friday at 1.00 p.m. EST (1800 GMT). The US-drafted resolution was circulated among council members on Thursday, Xinhua news...
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till Wednesday after the opposition, led by the Congress, on Friday sought a "solution" to the ongoing impasse over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks against his predecessor Manmohan Singh before conducting any business. Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu, rejecting the opposition's demand, initially adjourned the House till 2 p.m. ...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights who has openly criticised powerful governments, including the Trump administration, has said he will not seek a second four-year term as it "might involve bending a knee in supplication". The decision by Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, a Jordanian prince and former diplomat, was conveyed in a short statement that was emai...
The Bombay High Court on Friday struck down the sanction accorded by Maharashtra Governor C.V. Rao to prosecute former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh Society scam. The main ground for the court's decision was that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) failed to present any fresh evidence against Chav...
