Although the presence of women in media has more than doubled in two decades, they constitute only 28.6 percent of the media workforce in Asia and the Pacific. Men outnumber women 4:1 in India and 5:1 in Pakistan. ...
Within hours after terrorist suicide bombers attacked Afghanistan's parliament on Monday, India asked the international community to reconsider pulling troops from there because of the worsening security situation....
The Congress on Monday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's apology over BJP general secretary Ram Madhav's tweets about Vice President Hamid Ansari's absence from the Yoga Day event but AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik said the leader had apologised and the matter should be put to rest....
The death toll in the Mumbai hooch tragedy - the worst in 11 years in Maharashtra - shot up to 102 on Monday, police said. ...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa on Monday said the by-election in the Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency, from where she is contesting in order to enter the legislature, was forced on the people due to the conspiracy of her political foes...
At least five people were killed and 31 others, including five women, injured in an attack by a Taliban suicide team on the Afghan parliament here on Monday as a second district in the northern province of Kunduz fell to the Islamist group, media reported. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called for each school in India to plan its own targets which it aims to achieve by 2022, the country's 75th year of independence. ...
The Congress on Monday accused External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje of violating central laws in their dealings with former IPL chief Lalit Modi....
The government on Monday proposed to do away with transaction charges on card payments at petrol pumps, gas agencies and for railway tickets. ...
Ruling out any alliance with the Congress to take on the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday said the party will go by its resolution in the Vishakhapatnam party Congress in April of not going into an alliance or front with the Congress or the BJP....