The Lok Sabha was adjourned for about 15 minutes on Tuesday during question hour when Telugu Desam Party (TDP) members protested demanding special status for Andhra Pradesh. As the disruption continued, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said she would allow a discussion only under relevant rules and provided there was prior notice. Trinamool Congress leader Sudip...
A day-long shutdown called by opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday to demand special status to the state evoked near total response. Buses of the state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corp (APSRTC) went off the roads while shops, businesses and educational institutions remained closed in most parts of all the 13 districts. ...
The father of the slain Muslim US soldier at the centre of a controversial feud with Donald Trump said on Monday he had no desire to escalate the conflict and that it's time to "join hands with good Muslims", even as the Republican presidential candidate attacked him again on Twitter....
As India said it will try to bring back over 10,000 Indians rendered jobless in the Gulf, the Indian diplomatic mission in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia is working on a mechanism to retrieve the pending arrears of the retrenched Indian workers from their Saudi employers....
Terming the offer by Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel to quit as a "cosmetic change", Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday said this was meaningless in the context of the recent incident of flogging of Dalits by cow vigilantes in the state....
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is here to attend a 'vipassana' session, will not be allowed to meet anyone during the 10-day meditation course or access to newspapers or mobile phone, an official said on Monday....
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday said the US was not trustable as, according to him, Washington failed to fulfil its obligations over the nuclear deal titled "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action"....
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel has called upon the BJP leadership to "relieve" her from her present responsibilities in keeping with the "party's laudable tradition†of leaders who turn 75 vacating their posts....
In wake of the humiliating defeat in the recent Kerala assembly polls, the Congress high command has summoned three top state leaders to come to Delhi on Thursday to discuss the future course. ...
In a breather for Amit Shah, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea by social activist and former bureaucrat Harsh Mander challenging the BJP President's discharge in the alleged staged killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his aide Tusliram Prajapati....
