Acknowledging that there may be merit in the Congress's demand for an 18 percent rate of the proposed goods and services tax (GST), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday held the main opposition party responsible for disrupting parliament and said "its obstructionist tendencies inflict an economic injury on the country"....
Some Kerala government offices functioned on Sunday as a mark of respect to late president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam....
The soaring price of onions seems to have hit hard everyone in Delhi, where the price has simply doubled in retail markets....

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday criticised the Congress for disrupting the monsoon session of parliament even though the government has agreed to hold a debate on the issues agitating the main opposition....
Targeting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his ally RJD leader Lalu Prasad, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghuvar Das on Sunday urged the people to vote for a "Nitish-Lalu mukht Bihar"....
The Indian Army continued its rescue and relief efforts on Sunday in flood-hit Gujarat, evacuating around 1,000 people, military officials said....

NASA scientists have captured a peanut-shaped asteroid that approached close to Earth last weekend. The next time an asteroid will approach Earth this close will be in 2054....
The death toll in West Bengal due to heavy rains and floods crossed 50 on Sunday after seven more deaths, including of four children, were reported from various districts....
Taking a dig at the inaccessibility of porn sites over various internet service providers in the country, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma said “depriving consenting adults†of watching porn is equivalent to what “Taliban and ISIS is doing to freedomâ€. ...
Britain's feline lovers must have heaved a collective purr of contentment, now that they have finally got the country's first cat cafe, where they can savour cat-themed drinks while watching or playing with the in-house moggies....