At least two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters and a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) member were injured in a clash in South Tripura district, police said on Friday. ...
Growth in India's private sector output declined in May as manufacturing and service sectors lost momentum in conditions of softer domestic demand, while services slowed sharply to a six-month low, a business survey on performance of the services sector showed on Friday....
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday assured "strict action" against the perpetrators of the Mathura violence, which claimed 24 lives including those of two policemen....
Indian-American Mainak Sarkar had killed his wife in Minnesota before driving over 3,000 km to the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) where he shot dead a professor and then turned the gun on himself. Both the victims were on his "kill list", officials said. ...
In an attempt to downplay the Mathura incident, the ruling Samajwadi Party on Friday asserted that the rioters involved in the violence were "outsiders" who had gathered at a park on the state government land for a protest. ...
Mark Zuckerberg, who holds majority voting control of the social networking site, may not be an absolute power at Facebook if he decides to quit or his services are terminated in the future. According to a regulatory filing by the Facebook board to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, the board will ask s...
CPI-M candidate P. Sreeramakrishnan on Friday was elected the speaker of the 14th Kerala assembly, an entirely expected outcome except that he got not only a BJP vote but also a vote of the main opposition UDF. Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala acknowledged the "leak" of one vote. "We don't think that this was a deliberate attempt, b...
The BJP on Friday accused the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh of patronising goons and demanded a judicial inquiry into the Mathura violence that has left 24 persons dead including police officials. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament from Mathura Hema Malini favoured a CBI inquiry into the incident. BJP secretary Shrikant S...
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington next week, a senior US administration official has described the US-India relationship as of incredible significance to the world. "The US-Indian relationship is of incredible significance, not only to the region but to the world," US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner sai...
The toll in the Mathura violence rose to 20 on Friday as Superintendent of Police Mukul Dwivedi and others injured in Thursday's clash between police and encroachers during an anti-encroachment drive, succumbed to their injuries, officials said. While 250 people have been detained for their involvement in the incident, the city continues to be tense even as he...
