Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday expressed shock and anguish over the death of 22 persons in a stampede in Mumbai and said the "man-made" disaster could have been avoided by taking care of the safety aspect....
Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy on Friday returned to the state capital from Kolkata after his 42-day leave for visiting the US was cancelled and he was directed to return to Agartala at once, a Raj Bhavan official said....
In a blistering attack on its ally the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena on Friday termed the stampede in which 22 railway commuters were killed as a "public massacre"....
The number of people evacuated over the possible eruption of Mount Agung volcano in the Indonesian island of Bali, the country's major tourist destination, crossed 144,000 on Friday....
The BSF on Friday denounced the killing of two of its troops by Pakistani snipers along the Jammu and Kashmir border, officials said, adding Pakistan Rangers promised to maintain peace on the troubled frontier....
A day after backing former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha's views on the economy, actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Friday advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "come forward and face the people"....
The once-in-a-five-year meet is China's most important political event. The authorities would not like to risk any event which disrupts the meeting where Chinese President Xi Jinping will get a second five-year term....
In a Dussehra-eve tragedy, at least 22 commuters were killed in a stampede on a narrow railway footover bridge connecting the Parel-Elphinstone Road stations of Western Railway here on Friday morning, officials said....
Under attack from within and rivals, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday hit back at Yashwant Sinha calling him a "job applicant at 80" and said "acting in tandem" with Congress leader P. Chidambaram would not change facts....
A defiant Yashwant Sinha on Thursday stuck to his stand on his criticism of the government, saying he had to go public with his views on the state of economy because the doors of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP were shut for him....
