Having enjoyed a 36-hour Durga Puja break, star campaigners of the ongoing five-phase Bihar assembly elections once again returned to the action, resuming their campaigning on Friday by addressing rallies....
Israel has asked FIFA to condemn the recent comments of the president of the Palestinian Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, who in a recent interview glorified Palestinian attacks against Israelis and says he believes the perpetrators are courageous heroes....
Bollywood playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya was on Friday booked here on charges of abusing and molesting a woman at a Durga Puja event late on Thursday night, a police officer said....
The Sahitya Akademi for the first time on Friday condemned the killings of writers and urged the writers to take back the awards they returned in anguish against the Akademi's silence so far on the issue....
Parents in Kerala with toddlers in tow were seen rushing to temples, clubs, media organisations and churches on Vijaydashmi, as Dussehra is called here, as thousands of tiny tots were initiated into the world of letters....
Violence again erupted in Kannauj, the parliamentary constituency of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife, and the situation continued to be tense on Friday, a day after a youth was killed, police said....
Tension gripped the hilly Bhaderwah town in Jammu region on Friday over allegations that miscreants desecrated the Quran. ...
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came to the US with a litany of complaints against India with the hope of getting an India type nuclear deal and involving Washington in the Kashmir issue. He got neither....
Nearly 100 writers took out a peaceful march here on Friday to protest against increasing intolerance in the country. ...
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday attacked his ally, the BJP, over rising food prices and warned that governments can fall because of unchecked price rise....