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....
Authorities lifted curfew and prohibitory orders in the town in the morning while police, State Reserve Police (SRP) and the Rapid Action Force remained deployed in the town and other north Gujarat towns....
New Delhi, April 18 Levelling serious allegations against the Congress in the Ishrat Jahan shootout case, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said the Congress almost connived to get a political rival eliminated....
A court here on Monday sentenced a 42-year-old IT professional to death and his married lover to double life imprisonment for murdering her four-year-old daughter and mother-in-law in 2014....
The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that the British East India Company did not take away the Kohinoor diamond but it was gifted to Britain by Sikh monarch Maharaja Duleep Singh....
