Republicans in the US Senate succeeded in changing the rules to allow Supreme Court nominees to be confirmed by a simple majority of the 100 members, ending a decades-old tradition of requiring 60 votes....
A police case was started against West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh for spearheading a Ram Navmi rally by wielding a sword in his constituency Kharagpur of West Midnapore district....
Veteran Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna, who was hospitalised last week due to severe dehydration, has responded positively to treatment and is stable, doctors treating him said on Thursday. ...
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday denied any incident of beating or lynching in Rajasthan by 'gau rakshaks' (cow vigilantes)....
A Punjabi may be out of Punjab, but Punjab is never out of her....
The RBI on Thursday hinted that the fall out of demonetisation, whereby the banking system is flushed with liquidity adding to inflationary pressures, could be a factor in its holding rates in the April policy review....
Terming the armed rallies organised by the Sangh Parivar throughout West Bengal on the occasion of Ram Navmi as "highly alarming" and "unacceptable", CPI-M's state Secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra on Thursday appealed to the Mamata Banerjee government to call an all-party meeting to counter any possible hostility....
YSR Congress party President Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday met President Pranab Mukherjee and urged him to direct the Andhra Pradesh Governor to sack four ministers who were inducted into the state cabinet last week, as they had defected from his party to the ruling TDP. ...
The Chinese media on Thursday kept up its tirade against India over the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, with an editorial in a state-run daily suggesting that if China, with its higher military capabilities and support among India's neighbours, wants it can create trouble in Jammu and Kashmir....
The pact between the world's largest maker of premium cars and the world's largest automotive supplier forms a powerful counterweight to new auto industry players like ride-hailing firms Uber and Didi which are also working on self-driving cars....