Around 57 percent of 13.5 million electorate voted on Monday in 49 of the 243 constituencies in the first round of battle for political power in Bihar. The two main fronts soon claimed victory. ...
Kuwaiti authorities are set to hold a meeting to discuss the mechanism of bringing in Indian workers to the country after New Delhi imposed new rules for people seeking to work abroad....
AAP leader Kumar Vishwas on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak up on the lynching of a man following rumours that he ate beef....
Veteran CPI-M leader V.S. Achuthanandan on Monday sought a CBI probe into the controversial death of a religious leader following claims that he was murdered in 2002....
Barely three weeks after a democratic federal constitution was promulgated in Nepal, Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli was on Monday sworn-in as the new prime minister heading an eight-member cabinet....
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Frank Islam would like fellow Indian-Americans to make a strategic investment in education in India as it is the great equalizer and opportunity creator. ...
Tens of thousands voted or stood in serpentine queues at polling booths on Monday in the first round of assembly election in Bihar -- the country's biggest popularity test since the BJP was routed in Delhi in February. ...
Noted Hindi poet Rajesh Joshi here on Monday announced he had returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the attacks on the freedom of speech and expression in the country. He was conferred the award in 2002. ...
An IED explosion occurred on a road in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian town on Monday, but it failed to cause any damage to any property or life, a police officer told IANS here. ...
Barely hours before the launch of a book by former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, the main organiser and former journalist Sudheendra Kulkarni alleged he was abused and attacked with ink by suspected Shiv Sainiks here on Monday....