Facing a road block in parliament and widespread protests, the government has now decided to go slow on the contentious land acquisition bill and may let the ordinance promulgated on the issue lapse. Knowledgeable sources said the government is unlikely to discontinue either of the houses in the middle of the session, a constitutional necessity if the or...
Born in September 1907, Bhagat Singh, one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, was hanged on March 23, 1931 along with Rajguru and Sukhdev in the Lahore prison. Their final rites were performed at Hussainiwala in Ferozepur district. ...
Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza have completed a dream first tournament together, beating Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 6-3, 6-4 to win the BNP Paribas Open women's doubles title here. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he was surprised by rumours against the land acquisition bill and defended the legislation saying it was aimed at the welfare of farmers....
Ghar wapsi (homecoming), slander against Mother Teresa, attacks on minority institutions and the gang rape of a nun in West Bengal, could have resulted in the BJP-led ruling coalition performing below par in the Goa zilla panchayat polls, the convenor of a ruling coalition partner has claimed....
The National Commission for Women (NCW) slammed the West Bengal administration on Saturday over its failure to arrest any of the culprits involved in the gang rape of a septuagenarian nun in Nadia district....
Projected as the BJP's face in the upcoming Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) election, actor-turned-politician Roopa Ganguly may not be able to contest the polls owing to a technical glitch clouding her nomination....
The toll in the train derailment in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli district rose to 38 on Saturday. Congress president Sonia Gandhi met the injured during the day and urged Indian Railways to expedite the probe into the accident....
Historian Ayesha Jalal has writen in her latest book, "The Struggle for Pakistan", that "at the root of Pakistan's national identity crisis has been the unresolved debate on how to square the state's self-proclaimed Islamic identity with the obligations of a modern nation-state"....
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has always been an active and vocal leader and her recent work of going out, meeting people and speaking out for them should not be seen as something new, party leader Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday....