Yoga is not a religious activity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Tuesday to mark the International Day of Yoga....
As the NASDAQ was zooming up 69 points on microsecond transactions at 11 a.m. on Monday, outside in front of the stock exchange building on Times Square, peace and calm wafted among the thousands of yoga enthusiasts celebrating the International Yoga Day a day early to coincide with the Summer Solstice....
Hundreds of thousands of people across the country and abroad will bend and stretch and do some deep breathing as part of yoga exercises for the second International Yoga Day celebrations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the events in Chandigarh on Tuesday....
Two Indians were among 14 people, providing security to the Canadian embassy here, killed when a suicide bomber targeted their mini bus in the Afghan capital on Monday, Indian and Afghan authorities said, while two other blasts claimed 10 more lives elsewhere in the country....
Today's announcement on FDI is a panic reaction. It is a reaction to show to the world that it's business as normal or business as usual even as Raghuram Rajan has announced his exit," said senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, newly-elected to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka. ...
The world is ready to observe the second International Day of Yoga (IDY) on Tuesday as Indian missions abroad held many practice sessions to prepare thousands of people for the day....
In a situation where the burden on the people is relentlessly mounting, the CPI-M central committee has called on its units to observe nationwide protest action and focus on price rise and growing unemployment from July 11 to July 17," Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said here....
Local leaders of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal on Monday demanded a probe into what they called was "migration of nearly a hundred families" from Agra localities with considerable population of Muslims. ...
The stand-off between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and opposition BJP over the murder of an NDMC officer intensified on Monday with the Chief Minister reiterating his demand for the arrest of BJP MP Maheish Girri while the BJP demanded that Kejriwal either prove his charges or apologize....
The apex court justices rejected an appeal of an October decision by the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld laws in Connecticut and New York that prohibit civilians from owning certain semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines....
