At least 488 soldiers and 3,400 militants have been killed in the ongoing armed offensive by the Pakistani army in the country's northwest tribal area over the last 18 months, the Inter-Services Public Relations, the military's media wing, said in a statement here on Saturday....
Officials said Zamin Hussain Khan, a son of the Bharat Ratna musician, has been scheduled to welcome the visiting dignitary. He would be playing at a cultural extravaganza being held at hotel Taj Gateway in Nadesar....
The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Congress on Saturday slammed NCP leader Sharad Pawar's comments on party president Sonia Gandhi in his biography....
Dilip Ghosh, who formally took charge on Saturday as West Bengal state BJP president, asserted his primary task was to steer the party to victory in the assembly polls next year....
Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy was first invited to and then asked to stay away from a function at Kollam on Tuesday being attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, prompting an angry response from former defence minister A.K. Antony, who questioned the flip-flop....
The BJP "only knows how to spread hatred and violence", said Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi here on Saturday while on a road show ahead of state polls next year....
Considering that any intelligence that David Coleman Headley might supply India will necessarily be exponentially dated, it is hard to make sense of a special court in Mumbai granting a conditional pardon to the key Mumbai terror plotter and even making him a witness for the prosecution....
The parliament impasse over the passage of key economic legislations, coupled with an imminent US rate hike, drove the Indian equity markets to a second consecutive week of losses....
India on Saturday signed landmark agreements on civil nuclear energy and bullet train technology with Japan, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi described visit of his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe "truly historic"....
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that the country is facing serious challenges from left-wing extremism which needs to be countered effectively and collectively along with the states....
