All India Forward Bloc leader Ashok Ghosh, who had been on ventilator support since last month, died on Thursday at a city hospital, doctors said. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called upon the political parties in parliament to work towards increasing accountability of the executive. Replying to the debate in the Lok Sabha on the motion of thanks to the president's address, Modi said there was no dearth of programmes for welfare of the people and huge sums of money go towards p...
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya will on Thursday file objections to the State Bank of India's (SBI) interlocutory application (IA) before the debt recovery tribunal seeking his arrest in the defunct Kingfisher Airline's multi-crore-rupee loan default case. ...
As many as 23 Bangladeshi nationals, including nine women and three children, have been arrested in Tripura for illegally entering Indian territory, police said here on Thursday. "Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested 23 Bangladeshi nationals at Gandachara in northern Tripura late on Wednesday. Later, a local court sent 20 of them to judicial custody a...

The government is examining a Tamil Nadu government's plea seeking the release of those linked to the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a dig at the Congress for poor implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the states....
The funds crunch at the Centre seems to have adversely impacted the schemes meant for the rural poor which are managed by the union rural development ministry. ...
The Allahabad High Court (HC) has stayed for a period of three months the installation of television set top boxes (STB) in the state, an official said on Thursday. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday invoked late Congress stalwarts and prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi to urge the opposition to let parliament function "peacefully and responsibly". ...
A software engineer was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, on Thursday, police said. ...