Attacking the Narendra Modi regime's refusal to decriminalize defamation, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the government's stand was "strange"....

India, which has drastically reduced its oil imports from Iran under US pressure, stands to gain from the historic accord reached between Tehran and six world powers to limit its nuclear programme in return for lifting sanctions....

Candidates and their parents named as accused in the Vyapam recruitment scam should be made approvers in the case, Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh said on Tuesday....

The Congress and AAP on Tuesday flayed BJP president Amit Shah's reported statement that it would take 25 years to bring 'achhe din' (good days) in the country, even as the BJP dubbed it a "part of larger conspiracy to defame the party"....

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BJP spokesperson MJ Akbar on Tuesday said the state bureaucracy was fed up of the Samajwadi Party-government led by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and was in a "rebellious mode"....
In a shocking incident, an engineering student, spurned in love, stabbed to death his classmate and her sister here on Tuesday, police said....

A day after leading a protest march through the state capital, RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday called for a Bihar bandh (shutdown) on July 27 to protest the withholding of caste-based census data by the central government....
A 27-year-old murder convict committed suicide by hanging himself from the grill in the high security Tihar jail here, police said on Tuesday....

After the recovery of human remains and personal belongings of the three-member crew along with the wreckage from the seabed, search operations for the missing Indian Coast Guard Dornier aircraft that plunged into the sea on June 8 have been called off, an official said on Tuesday....