Even as Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Saturday dubbed as "Islamizing" the West Bengal government's attempts to "secularise" school text books by replacing certain words, the government clarified the changes were introduced two years ago....
The sighting of this celestial light, which in local parlance is called 'Makara jyothi' and takes place every year on the first day of the Malayalam month in January, is believed to be the ultimate for a pilgrim....
The Akhilesh Yadav faction of the Samajwadi Party seems to be inching closer to sealing a deal with the Congress, even as the Election Commission is yet to decide on the fate of the SP and its symbol cycle....
Former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Saturday failed to turn up for a crucial political affairs committee (PAC) meeting of the Congress party here, and senior Congress leaders were hard put to explain his absence....
The AAP in Goa on Saturday took a leaf out of its Delhi's list of campaign promises, announcing free potable water for every household up to 20,000 litres, halving of domestic electricity bills and starting mohalla clinics, in its poll manifesto....
Sparking a new controversy over the Father of the Nation, Haryana Minister Anil Vij said on Saturday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a "bigger brand" than Mahatma Gandhi but later retracted his statement as it attracted flak....
Although two opinion polls have given different findings about which party will be the winner in Punjab, conventional wisdom is that the ruling Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine will have a hard time overcoming the anti-incumbency factor....
Despite the Reserve Bank of India dismissing reports that suggested 97 per cent of the demonetised currency had returned to the bank's coffers by December 30, its own weekly figures on "currency in circulation" indicate that this number is correct....
Four children of a family were burnt to death here on Saturday morning, police said. ...
The great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Tushar A. Gandhi, on Saturday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the wake of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) diary-calendar controversy....
