In spite of widespread criticism and calls asking him to step down after the recent scandal that rocked the football world, FIFA president Sepp Blatter was re-elected for the fifth consecutive term after his lone rival Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan withdrew after the first round of voting at the end of the Congress here on Friday....
A communal clash broke in the state capital on Friday night after a minor spat between two communities over use of a loudspeaker during Friday prayers snowballed into pitched battles and incidents of vandalism, officials said....
Launching an attack on Modi, Congress leader Ambika Soni also accused Modi of trying to overawe the judiciary and "denigrating parliament"....
India on Friday rejected an OIC resolution commenting on Jammu and Kashmir as "completely unacceptable" and asked the association of 56 Islamic states to "refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of India"....
A report on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first year in office released here on Friday slammed his "abysmal failure" to fulfil pre-poll promises over democracy, education, gender and sexuality, and economy....
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday condemned IIT-Madras' move to censure a students' group for criticising the Narendra Modi-led central government....
In a small advantage to the central government, the Supreme Court on Friday described as "tentative" Delhi High Court's observation that its May 21 order giving Delhi's lt. governor the final say in posting and transfers of bureaucrats was "suspect", even as it issued notice to the city government on the issue. ...
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday that all issues, including that of the Ram Mandir and Article 370 of the Constitution, were important to the central government....
A court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sentenced an Indian national to one year in jail for posting a "blasphemous and slanderous" status on social networking site Facebook, media reported....
Raebareli: Congress president Sonia Gandhi with her daughter Priyanaka Gandhi Vadra talking to villagers during her two day visit in Raebareli on May 28, 2015. (Photo: IANS)...
