
Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Wednesday launched the Skill India mission, saying "we want to fulfil dreams of people and we want to do it in a structured way, taking the states together"....
Authorities in North Goa and South Goa districts have renewed the ban on the entry of Pramod Muthalik, chief of the Mangalore-based Hindu right-wing organisation Sri Rama Sene, a government official said on Wednesday....
Jawaharlal Nehru never realized until it was too late that China can never be "a real friend to anybody except themselves", according to late foreign secretary A.P. Venkateswaran....

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had hastily ordered the appointment of Malay Rai as Madhya Pradesh State Finance Commission member over the phone, an RTI query has revealed....
An Indian is among the 20 members of a tourist group whose excursion in China "went horribly wrong" when they were detained allegedly for having terror links and held incommunicado for almost two days, said a South African charity....
Louisiana's Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has joined other 2016 Republican presidential contenders in decrying the historic nuclear deal with Iran saying it doesn't go far enough....
A woman was killed and three people, including two civilians and a border security force (BSF) trooper, were injured in firing by Pakistani Rangers on the international border in Jammu district on Wednesday. ...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said that certain non-BJP chief ministers skipping the Niti Aayog meeting in New Delhi was "against the spirit of federalism"....
The BJP here on Wednesday questioned Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's absence from the NITI Aayog meet in New Delhi, accusing the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in the state of "politicising development". ...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday expressed her government's opposition to the land acquisition bill, maintaining certain provisions take away the safeguards required for farmers in the country. ...