Since Moscow started its air operation in Syria on September 30 last year, the Russian Air Force has eliminated over a third of Islamic State fighters in the country, the deputy head of Russia’s top security body revealed....
The CBI on Tuesday conducted raids at five premises of Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan of West Bengal's Birbhum district in connection with alleged irregularities committed by its sacked vice chancellor Sushanta Dattagupta....
In a seemingly unprecedented move, all newly-elected Congress legislators in West Bengal have given a "written declaration" on stamp paper that they would not leave the party, a party leader said on Tuesday....
Assam's newly sworn-in chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday promised a "poverty-free" state that will serve all sections of the society irrespective of caste, creed and religion....
The CPI on Tuesday blamed the lack of clarity in the tie-up between the Congress and the Left Front for the coalition's defeat in the recent West Bengal assembly elections, but said the arrangement needs to be continued to combat the post poll violence "unleashed by the ruling Trinamool Congress"....
After a Bihar court on Tuesday refused to hear the bail plea of suspended Janata Dal-United legislator Manorama Devi, another court also rejected the plea of her husband Bindi Yadav....
Thousands of people on Tuesday bade a tearful farewell to Pandurang Mahadev Gawade, a soldier martyred in a gun battle in Kashmir, as his last rites were performed with full military honours at his Amboli village in this district, officials said. Gawade's widow and two young children were joined at the funeral by thousands of villag...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a plea seeking 100 percent cut in supply of water to the liquor industry in Maharashtra so that millions of people faced with unprecedented drought could be provided with water. Dismissing the plea as withdrawn, an apex court vacation bench of Justice Prafulla C. Pant and J...
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said there is no threat to India from Islamic State (IS) as people of the Muslim community are against the IS. "Along with the alertness of the security, the Muslims in India are against the IS. They cannot grow in India as Muslims won't allow them," Singh said in an interview to ETV. Speaking about underworld d...
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday began questioning Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat in an alleged political horse-trading case, in the wake of a "sting" video showing him offering bribes to buy legislative support in the state assembly. Rawat reached the CBI office here around 11.15 a.m. and his questioning began a little later, an o...
