The Congress on Friday accused the BJP of loaning Rs.25 lakh to what is said was a "for profit public limited company" in Mumbai and sought a clarification from the prime minister and finance minister on the issue. ...

The year past was perhaps the most polarised in India's history after Partition in 1947, former finance minister P. Chidambaram said on Friday....

The Congress on Friday alleged that the RSS has turned into a political organization, as opposed to its own constitution....

A plea seeking registration of a first information report (FIR) against Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and two others for alleged involvement in solar panel allocation case was filed on Friday in a Delhi court. ...

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Gujarat on Saturday, which coincided with BJP president Amit Shah's felicitation programme here, has been cancelled due to alleged security issues, the Congress announced here. ...

Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani's remarks about goddess Durga in the Rajya Sabha generated much political heat in the upper house on Friday as well, with the opposition demanding an apology from her and she rejecting it. ...

President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday inaugurated the bicentenary celebrations of CMS College here and also laid the foundation stone of the bicentenary block....
The 2016 Oscars ceremony is all set to have a glam avatar, according to production designer Derek McLane. ...

The friends and family of Rohith Vemula, the Hyderabad University student who committed suicide, slammed Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Friday and accused her of lying in parliament....
A court here on Friday sent JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on charges of sedition, to two weeks judicial custody, sources said....