Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lashed out at the traditional rival fronts in Kerala, saying both looted the state during their reigns. He said the massive crowds at his rally here were an indication that it was time the BJP emerged as a third force in the Kerala assembly....
Senior Congress leaders, including party president Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh, on Friday courted arrest after they were stopped from going to Parliament House as part of their "Save Democracy March". ...
The BJP will be ferrying Vellapally Natesan, the founder of Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS), in a helicopter during the Kerala election campaign, a move that underlines the importance it assigns to its coalition partner. ...
The head of the joint investigation team probing former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination said on Thursday that the team could not trace the threatening call allegedly made by then president Pervez Musharraf to Bhutto. Mohammad Khalid Qureshi, the JIT chief, was the last prosecution witness in the high-profile ass...
The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the decks for ousted Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat to take a floor test in the assembly on Tuesday but nine disqualified rebel Congress legislators won't be allowed to vote. The top court said it will monitor the voting that is to take place at 11 a.m. The entire proceedings of the 70-member hous...
Efforts were made by the previous UPA government to favour AgustaWestland and attempts were made to "hoodwink" the probe into kickbacks in the chopper deal, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in the Lok Sabha on Friday during a debate on the VVIP chopper scam. "The field trials of the chopper were initially opposed by (then defence minister) ...
Heavy rains accompanied by squalls lashed Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on Friday, officials said. The heavy downpour, which began around Thursday midnight, continued till early Friday morning, inundating roads and low-lying areas in Hyderabad and suburbs. Strong gales uprooted trees, electricity poles and hoardings while snapped electricity wires plu...
Destabilising elected governments in states with a motive to capture power all over, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is "killing democracy", Congress president Sonia Gandhi said here on Friday. "Their (BJP) lust for power is increasing and thus they are killing the democratically-elected governments forcefully," Sonia said, addressing the crowd at the L...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday alleged that some media houses were asked "not to touch" the controversy over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's degree. ...
Chinese archaeologists said they have found a paddy field more than 8,000 years old. This could be the earliest wet rice farming site in the world. ...
