Opposition parties on Friday staged a walkout from the Lok Sabha over incidents of atrocities against Dalits and the recent thrashing of two Muslim women in Madhya Pradesh by cow vigilantes....
The government is hopeful of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill being passed during Parliament's ongoing monsoon session and has listed it on the Rajya Sabha's agenda next week, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Friday. ...
Banking operations across the country were hit on Friday as around 10 lakh employees in around 40 private and nationalised banks struck work for a day to protest against the central government's policies for the sector. ...
Thousands of people, cutting across class and political barriers, gathered at Rabindra Sadan auditorium here on Friday to pay their last respects to eminent writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi who passed away a day ago....
Indian national Gurdip Singh who was set to be executed by Indonesian authorities for drug smuggling has won a temporary reprieve as he was not among the four prisoners executed by a firing squad early on Friday in that country. ...
Chelsea Clinton beamed with pride as she introduced her mother Hillary Clinton on Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia where the former secretary of state will formally accept the presidential nomination. ...
Promising a populist agenda to build a better nation based on unity, Hillary Clinton on Thursday night aceppted the Democratic Party's historic presidential nomination making her the first women candidate of a major US party and challenged Republican rival Donald Trump on what she said was his message of hate and divisiveness....
The four Dalit youths thrashed by cow vigilantes near Gujarat's Una town on July 11 have been admitted to the Civil Hospital here after their health deteriorated....
Violent protests over the rejection of Karnataka's interim plea for sharing the Mahadayi river water with Goa by a tribunal disrupted normal life across cities and towns in north Karnataka on Thursday....
Following the arrest of two suspected Islamic State sympathisers by the Kerala Police, the BJP state unit on Thursday demanded a probe into a claim by one of the arrested accused that 700 persons from the southern state were converted to Islam....
