Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reached out to youth of Jammu and Kashmir and invoked his predecessor Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the late chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed for "peace and development" in the state still reeling under a fresh bout of violence that saw five people dead in alleged shootings by security forces....
The body of Indian prisoner Kirpal Singh, who died under suspicious circumstances in a Lahore jail last week, was brought back to India on Tuesday. The body was immediately taken to a government hospital in Amritsar for post-mortem examination....
Main opposition Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Tuesday called for a shutdown in Jharkhand state on May 14 to protest against the domicile policy. The decision to call for a shutdown was taken at a JMM meeting on Monday evening. "The rights of the Moolvasi (indigenous residents) have been snatched in the domicile policy. The BJP gov...
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar left for Kolkata on Tuesday to campaign for the CPI-M in the West Bengal assembly elections. "Sarkar will address several election rallies in North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts" over three days starting on Tuesday, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader told IANS. Sarkar, who campaigned for the Left part...
India has regretted the "downward trend in the peace process" for the Middle East but refrained from direct criticism of either Israel or the Palestinians for the escalation of tensions in the region. India's Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN Tanmaya Lal told the Security Council on Monday that attempts to revive the Palestinian-Israeli talks h...
The Shiv Sena, a BJP ally, on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the "smouldering unrest" in different parts of India which, it warned, could turn into a "raging inferno". The Sena compared the present situation in the country to Mumbai’s stink zone, the Deonar garbage dump yard - which, it said, appeared cool from t...
Nearly 200 people were injured on Tuesday in a suicide bombing near the Afghan presidential palace in capital Kabul, an official said. "Several dead bodies and 198 injured have been taken to hospitals," health ministry spokesman Aziz Qawosi said. It is difficult to say the exact number of casualties at the moment, Xinhua news agency quoted the officia...
The Supreme Court in Monday said that gender equality is a constitutional message and Sabarimala temple management cannot say that banning entry of women of a particular age group comes under their right to manage religious affairs. ...
Almost 10 years after Mayawati's "social engineering" helped her BSP capture power in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is trying to emulate the model to regain lost glory in the country's most populous and politically critical state....
A police case has been initiated against actress and BJP candidate Locket Chatterjee for "disrupting the polls process" and showing "discourteous behaviour" to the polling personnel, the Election Commission said....
