Around 39 percent of about 1.55 crore electorate voted in the first six hours on Thursday in the fifth and final round of the staggered Bihar assembly elections, officials said. ...
In a bid to put some 20,000 tonnes of idle gold to productive use and cut imports worth $35-$45 billion annually, India today launched three schemes related to the metal, including domestically minted coins with the images of Ashok Chakra and Mahatma Gandhi....
Heavy rain and faulty electronic voting machines (EVMs) played the spoilsport during ballotting on Thursday in the second and the final phase of Kerala's civic polls. ...
Voting began on Thursday in seven districts in the second and the final phase of Kerala's civic polls....
Tens of thousands of people queued up at polling stations on Thursday to vote in the fifth and final round of the staggered Bihar assembly election...
The latest US intelligence suggests that the crash of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt was most likely caused by a bomb planted by the terror group Islamic State (IS) or its affiliate, CNN reported on Wednesday. ...
Former West Bengal governor and national security advisor (NSA) M.K. Narayanan was assaulted by a member of a fringe organisation with a slipper here on Wednesday....
Success of any nation state depends on how effectively it harnesses all available resources at its disposal, foremost among these being the human resource, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday....
The Congress on Wednesday equated Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) concept of "nationalism" with that of "western concept of nationalism". ...
Justice T.S. Thakur, the seniormost judge after Supreme Court Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, will become the next Chief Justice of India and would be at the helm of the country's judiciary till January 4, 2017....
