Industrialist Vijay Mallya, at the centre of a controversy in India over alleged loan default of Rs.9,000 crore, has termed the charges against him as "preposterous" and said he was in "forced exile" here from which he would like to return to his country. "I'm absolutely not guilty of any of the preposterous charges of diverting funds from Ki...
The Supreme Court on Thursday said students aspiring for admission to under-graduate medical courses will have to appear in the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) as it declined pleas for exemption by Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. ...
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) is likely to give its verdict next Wednesday on the Art of Living (AoL) causing ecological damage on the Yamuna banks in Delhi, officials from the 'Green Court' told IANS....
Activists of the Congress' youth wing protested here on Thursday against the NDA government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the AgustaWestland chopper deal issue....

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday witnessed angry scenes with the opposition and treasury benches involved in a war of words after BJP member Subramanian Swamy mentioned the name of a European nation, a reference later expunged by the chair....

JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and 19 other students have begun an indefinite hunger strike to protest against the punishment handed out to them by a high-level committee....
High drama and pandemonium prevailed as Bhumata Brigade president Trupti Desai and her band of around 50 women supporters tried to enter the famous Haji Ali dargah here on Thursday evening....
In its first official statement on the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal, the defence ministry on Thursday said the primary issue is corruption and it will "leave no stone unturned" to bring out the truth....
India on Thursday afternoon successfully put into orbit its seventh and final navigation satellite - IRNSS-1G - with its own rocket in copy-book style. ...

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Thursday wrote to the Indian embassy in Oman and also to the ministry of external affairs (MEA) in New Delhi seeking early transfer of the body of a nurse who was found murdered in Salalah last week....