Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday justified ban on cow slaughter and asked all those who want to eat beef to go to Pakistan....
The Supreme Court was moved Thursday seeking a direction to restrain AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa from being sworn-in again as chief minister, likely on May 23, following her acquittal in an illegal assets case by the Karnataka High Court....
Scientists have found in east Africa stone tools dating back 3.3 million years -- long before the advent of modern humans and by far the oldest such artefacts yet discovered....
Declassified documents here about Osama bin Laden reveal that he was a dedicated family man who constantly worried about his four wives, 20 children and other relatives and who sometimes issued detailed instructions about how they should conduct themselves....
An exhibition of 101 vintage miniature paintings that string together a grand narrative of the ancient Indian epic 'Ramayana' opened at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) here, said a statement....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promised "better days" (achche din) are "turning from illusions into a nightmare", the CPI-M said in an editorial released on Thursday....
Amid concerns over "dangerous levels" of some substances in the popular snack Maggi noodles, the Uttar Pradesh food safety body on Thursday said its manufacturer Nestle was asked to recall the said batch, while the company assured it followed strict norms....
Zeshan Ali Khan, an MBA based in Mumbai, on Thursday lodged a police complaint accusing a prominent diamond company of "religious discrimination" by refusing him a job on grounds that he was a Muslim. ...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday described former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, assassinated on this day in 1991, as a "father, friend, leader" who wanted to build "a new India"....
Three people on a motorbike tried to snatch a woman's chain here but couldn't do so as she raised an alarm, following which one of them, a juvenile, was arrested, police said on Thursday. ...