Rationalist Govind Pansare, a senior CPI leader and leading light of the anti-toll tax movement, who was shot at in Kolhapur Feb 16, died in Mumbai. He was 82. ...
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin Saturday called in India's Ambassador to China, Ashok K. Kantha, to lodge a “stern representation†over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, state-run Xinhua news agency reported....
Over 3,000 guests attended the lavish wedding here of a Pakistani groom and an Indian bride, both of whom are from royal families....
Five corporate officials, arrested in the sensational petroleum ministry document leakage case, were Saturday sent to three days police custody by a court here even as police raided two places in the city as part of its investigations and Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that no one guilty will be spared. ...
The Kerala High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the election of Thiruvananthapuram Congress Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor, his office said....
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the alleged gang-rape of a Kenyan woman here in a moving car....
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi's observation that his government will act against any religious group inciting violence shows he has realized, albeit belatedly, that he cannot afford to maintain his "dangerous silence", to quote the New York Times, on the intimidation of minorities by Hindu groups affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). ...
There is no record available that shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a tea-seller on railway platforms or trains during his childhood, an RTI query has revealed....
PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will be the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister after his party reached an agreement for forming a government with the BJP, top party sources said Saturday....
Former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan wants to quit as the leader of opposition in the assembly, his close aide said Saturday. ...