
A sting operation allegedly showing several Trinamool Congress leaders accepting money in return for lobbying for a private firm snowballed into a major political row on Tuesday both within and outside parliament. ...

The government will honour the commitments made to Andhra Pradesh when Telengana was carved out of it, union minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Tuesday in the Lok Sabha. ...
A Congress worker was hacked to death on Tuesday in Alappuzha district of Kerala, following which a few people belonging to a left organisation have been detained, a senior police official said. ...

The government has been probing the cases of some "prominent people" hiding their taxable income as agricultural earnings, but there is no proposal for taxing the farmers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. ...
Sixty-nine NGOs have been barred from receiving foreign funds since May 2011, the government told parliament on Tuesday. ...
The CPI-M is set to recommend amendments to the Aadhaar bill, which is listed to be tabled in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, the last day before the budget session goes on over a month-long break....

Trinamool Congress vice president Mukul Roy on Tuesday termed the footage on the sting operation against his party that has sparked off a major political row as a "manufactured video". ...

The Pope during consistory of cardinals on Tuesday announced September 4 as the date for Mother Teresa's canonisation, the media reported. ...
The government will soon provide a single-window clearance for urban development projects and setting up of monuments by citizens and others, Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. "Earlier for all these, people had to come to Delhi. Now there will be online approval," he said while piloting the Real ...
Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar on Tuesday met the agitating Madhesi leaders here in connection with their dialogue with the Nepal government. Jaishankar arrived in the capital on Monday night to attend the Saarc Ministerial Meeting in Pokhara, some 200 km west of Kathmandu. Madhesi leader Raj Kishor Yadav said Jaishankar inquired about t...