The Gujarat Congress on Thursday said it would contest the local body elections next month with a promise of quota for economically weaker sections among the forward castes. ...
After writers and artistes, 53 historians on Thursday protested against the 'rising intolerance' and "highly vitiated atmosphere in the country, characterised by various forms of intolerance"....
The Congress on Thursday termed the action of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in sacking eight of his ministers as an action that was "too little, too late". ...
The Karnataka ministry was expanded on Thursday here, with the induction of four new cabinet ministers....
A Saudi blogger sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Muslim clerics has won the European Union’s prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights, the media reported....
As the long wait for justice over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots continues, Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit feels that the government failed in maintaining law and order situation during the violence, in which thousands of people were killed....
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday sacked eight cabinet ministers and withdrew portfolios of nine ministers in a major shake-up of his ministry. ...
The appropriate authority to inspect the serving of beef in New Delhi's Kerala House was a veterinary officer and not Delhi Police, Kerala Chief Minister Ooommen Chandy has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
India and Africa must speak in one voice for reforms in international institutions like the UN Security Council, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday. ...
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Abu Qasim, the mastermind of the Udhampur attack on a BSF bus on August 5 and a most wanted militant commander, has been killed in a gunbattle in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday....
