
The Congress and some opposition parties on Wednesday persisted with their protest against the suspension of 25 parliamentarians as logjam in the Rajya Sabha continued over the opposition demand for the resignations of three BJP leaders. ...

In a dramatic turn of events on Wednesday, unarmed villagers in Jammu and Kashmir overpowered a young Pakistani terrorist who took them hostage shortly after he and another militant ambushed a BSF convoy and killed two troopers on the Jammu-Srinagar highway....

The Tirupati laddu, given away as 'prasad' at the hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirupati, has entered its 300th year. Temple officials say the sacred offering was introduced on August 2, 1715....

Unidentified gunmen opened fire at former Pakistan skipper and pace legend Wasim Akram here on Wednesday, but he survived the assassination attempt, the media ...

In a major setback to controversial former IPL chairman Lalit Modi, a Mumbai Special Court on Wednesday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against him for alleged involvement in a money-laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate....
The BJP and its allies on Wednesday criticised Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to consider taking back his comments on the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader's DNA....
Of the 1.53 lakh researchers in India, 27,532 are women, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. ...

Even as the government has said Internet Service Providers were free not to block any of the 857 websites suspected for pornographic content unless they were abusive of children, the industry body of the ISPs said on Wednesday that the directive was "vague and unimplementable"....
The CPI-M on Wednesday urged the government to give priority to rail safety instead of pursuing grandiose projects such as bullet trains...
Unable to match the "money and muscle power" of the two big national parties, the students wing of the Aam Aam Aadmi Party, that rules Delhi, has decided to take on the political heavyweights in the in the high-profile Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections through more mass contact and social media outreach....