Senior Kannada journalist and social activist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead on Tuesday night by unidentified men at her residence here, police said....
The demonetisation tool used by the Indian government to drive out black money could have long-term benefits but its short-term economic costs would outweigh them, ex-Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan feels....
Apparently upset over being stripped of the Ganga Rejuvenation portfolio, Uma Bharti on Tuesday said no one can separate her from the river Ganga and announced that she will begin a padyatra along the banks of the holy river from Gangasagar next month....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday arrived here on a three-day visit to Myanmar from China, where he had gone to attend the 9th BRICS Summit....
Apprehending traffic snarls and law and order issues, the Karnataka government on Tuesday banned the opposition BJP from taking out a bike rally to Mangaluru from across the state....
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday attached RJD chief Lalu Prasad's parliamentarian daughter Misa Bharti's farmhouse in south Delhi in connection with a money laundering case, an official said. ...
Female disciples or 'sadhvis' of the controversial Dera Sacha Sauda sect were forced to seek 'mafi' (pardon) from its chief, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, at his whims and fancies. For those who did not know what 'mafi' meant, it turned to be rape by the man whom they considered their god....
Slamming demonetisation as a major factor responsible for the current deceleration in the economy, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram says the government was "clueless" about the causative factors on why the GDP was declining and unless these are addressed the Indian economy would be stuck at six per cent growth....
India and China on Tuesday signalled they were ready to move on from their Doklam border row, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreeing to avoid similar incidents in future....
Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress on Monday termed demonetisation a "Modi-made disaster" and demanded he apologise to the nation apart from ordering an enquiry into the "demonetisation scam"....