In robust support to New Delhi's Act East Policy that aims at greater engagement...

At least 8 persons died and several others were injured after a truck ploughed into pedestrians near the World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday, the media reported....

Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan will be an apt pick to head the US Federal Reserve, global financial magazine Barron's has said....
The birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on Tuesday saw the BJP and Congress spar over his legacy, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a veiled attack on the Congress, saying some political parties and governments had tried to obliterate his name from history books or ignore his contribution in unifying the country....
Terming the central government a proto-fascist force, human rights activist Teesta Setalvad on Tuesday said the freedom of speech and right to question to the established set-up is being immensely curtailed under the present regime....
Making anti-national comments has become a fashion and those who speak against the country nowadays are sometimes considered intellectual and elite, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Tuesday....
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Tuesday that she had spoken to an Indian student assaulted in Italy's Milan and was told that it was not a racial attack but robbery....
Carnatic music vocalist T.M. Krishna, who received the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration on Tuesday, made a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying "a leader who does not have the humility to apologise for genocide under his watch" does not help to integrate....
In a statement, the Indian Women's Press Corps, the Press Club of India and others expressed their "deep outrage on reports of women journalists being groped and manhandled by members of the Chattisgarh Police on October 29"....

Sardar Patel's 142nd birth anniversary on Tuesday saw the Congress and BJP again...