The silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on key issues of communal tension and violence is baffling for a leader who is hailed as a great communicator, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Saturday. ...
Chandigarh was put under maximum security cover on Saturday ahead of the arrival of French President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday afternoon....
Amid a row over which caste research scholar Rohith Vemula belonged to, his mother Radhika on Saturday claimed she belongs to the Scheduled Caste but was adopted by a family from Vaddera, a backward class community. ...
General Iwaichi Fujiwara, a Japanese military intelligence officer who had close ties with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army, had urged the Indian government in 1979 to take care of the disposition of Bose's ashes lying in a temple in Tokyo....
Nearly half a dozen people wearing masks and dark glasses attacked the state headquarters of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in Mumbai's Matunga area, injuring at least one party activist on Saturday evening....

Kerala's Excise Minister K. Babu on Saturday handed over his resignation to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, after a court ordered a case against him for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.50 lakh to permit closed bars to continue to function....
Veteran poet Ashok Vajpeyi said on Saturday he wouldn’t reclaim the award he has returned to Sahitya Akademi citing intolerance in the country. ...

The secret files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose declassified on Saturday have revealed that the All India Congress Committee (AICC) had created a trust in 1954 in favour of his daughter Anita providing a monthly maintenance of Rs.500....

Modi released digital copies of 100 files at the National Archives of India following the government's decision to declassify files on the freedom fighter....
Author Nayantara Sahgal on Saturday criticised the Narendra Modi government for not being open-minded and termed the current situation of "attack on dissent" as the "Indian brand of fascism"....