Following communal tension in Bihar's Saran district, a citizen's forum for communal harmony and peace on Tuesday met former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad, whose RJD is a major ally of the ruling Grand Alliance. ...
Robbers cut through the roof a train coach in Tamil Nadu and escaped with cash chests belonging to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), police said....
Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday that his statement on Dalits sounded like a movie dialogue, adding that it was a case of "too little too late"....
Speaking at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary party meeting here, Modi expressed his "unhappiness" over MPs not submitting report cards of their work during the last two years....
Days after India and Pakistan clashed over the turmoil in Kashmir at a Saarc meet in Islamabad, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar summoned Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit and "issued a strong demarche on continuing cross border terrorism from Pakistan" a Ministry of External Affairs statement said. ...
Tension gripped the Arunachal Pradesh capital on Tuesday after former Chief Minister Kalikho Pul, unseated on July 13 by a Supreme Court ruling, committed suicide, police said....
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan kept key policy rates unchanged in his last monetary policy review on Tuesday with little elbow room for easing due to the country's retail inflation inching closer to the upper tolerance level of 6 percent. The repurchase (repo) rate, or the interest commercial banks pay the centr...
The Kerala police has sought the help of Interpol to nab some foreign nationals suspected to be behind the fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 2.50 lakh from ATMs using duplicate cards. Additional Director General of Police B. Sandhya on Tuesday visited an ATM of the State Bank of India located in the heart of the city. "Scientific evidences is being co...
Rejecting appeals from some to continue her protest, Irom Sharmila told a court here on Tuesday that she will end her fast that began in 2000 against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. Sharmila, 42, told Chief Judicial Magistrate in Imphal West L. Tonsing that she also wanted to speak to the media. The court told her that she was free to do whate...
India is working with neighbouring countries, including Myanmar and Bangladesh, to fight insurgency in the northeastern region, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir told the house: "There has been substantial decrease in incidents of violence in the northeast since 2012." Ahir said the...
