
India has finally decided to join "gift baskets" at the Fourth Nuclear Security Summit here on Friday even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held meetings with several leaders, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, on the sidelines of the summit....

Mamata Banerjee may retain power in West Bengal and Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu while it may be a hung assembly in Assam with an edge to the BJP and the Left return to power in Kerala, says a poll survey....
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Friday slammed Darul Uloom Deoband for opposing the chanting of 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' which the seminary says amounts to worshipping a goddess. ...
In a ruling with far-reaching implications, the Bombay High Court on Friday declared that no law prevents women from entering places of worship and there should be no gender discrimination as far as entering one is concerned....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Riyadh from Washington on Saturday on the third and last leg of his three-nation tour to pay a two-day bilateral visit to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud....

"We do not have any information and updates on Father Thomas Uzhunnallil," Father Jose Koyickal, the vice provincial of the Indian Salesian Order of Don Bosco's Sacred Heart Province of Bengaluru - to which Uzhunnallil belongs, told IANS....

Urging Australian pension funds to invest in India, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said here the country will continue on its current path of development towards "eliminating the curse of poverty". ...
An explosion in a building in central Paris on Friday left five people injured, the media reported. ...

Two days after her acquittal by a Delhi court, rights activist Irom Sharmila is continuing her fast unto death in her security room in Imphal's J.N. Institute of Medical Sciences, a kind of sub-jail. ...
Profit booking, coupled with negative global cues and caution ahead of key macro-economic data, subdued the Indian equity markets on Friday....