
Security has been beefed up in and around the famed Sabarimala Temple in Kerala ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition on Sunday, officials said on Saturday....

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday slammed the policies of the Narendra Modi government, saying economy faces fragile recovery, there was inadequate job creation and uncertainty ahead for public enterprises....

"Going into the US Federal Reserve (US Fed) policy, an EM (emerging market) currency like rupee can remain under pressure against the US dollar," Anindya Banerjee, associate vice president for currency derivatives with Kotak Securities, told IANS....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi "thinks that labourers are dishonest" and that weakened labour unions would force them to work harder, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday....
Objecting to a comment made by a top Indian Navy officer on Friday about security risk posed by islands off Goa's coast, the Congress MP Shantaram Naik on Saturday accused the navy of trying to raise the security bogey as a pretext to "take control over the precious land"....
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday held his successor Mufti Muhammad Sayeed responsible for "rising incidents of intolerance" in the state....
Departing from his earlier announcement that it would be a Hindu party, he said it would be a secular one."The name of our new party is 'Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS)' and our symbol is "folded hands," said Natesan at the Shangumukham beach side in the presence of thousands of his supporters....
The FBI is investigating the California massacre as "an act of terrorism," after a revelation that the Pakistani-American female shooter posted a pledge of allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook during the shooting. Tashfeen Malik, who with her US born Pakistani origin husband Syed Rizwan Farook, shot ...

Dark clouds in the sky and rain at regular intervals put Chennai residents into worry mode on Saturday morning. ...
Normal life was partially affected here on Saturday due to a shutdown called by traders to protest the alleged ransacking of shops in the old city by security forces while dispersing stone-pelting youths on Friday. Shops and other commercial establishments remained closed in the old city as a mark of protest after traders alleged police fired tear smoke sh...