Former BJP leader Dayashankar Singh, whose abusive remarks against BSP chief Mayawati caused an outcry, was arrested on Friday in Bihar after being on the run for days, police said....
Foreign funding for Indian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) doubled in 2014-15 over the previous year, but with 10,000 NGO registrations cancelled in 2015, foreign contributions are likely to drop, according the latest data on foreign contributions....
"Made in India" versus "Make in America" has emerged an election issue in the US. ...
Opposition parties on Friday staged a walkout from the Lok Sabha over incidents of atrocities against Dalits and the recent thrashing of two Muslim women in Madhya Pradesh by cow vigilantes....
The government is hopeful of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill being passed during Parliament's ongoing monsoon session and has listed it on the Rajya Sabha's agenda next week, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Friday. ...
Banking operations across the country were hit on Friday as around 10 lakh employees in around 40 private and nationalised banks struck work for a day to protest against the central government's policies for the sector. ...
Thousands of people, cutting across class and political barriers, gathered at Rabindra Sadan auditorium here on Friday to pay their last respects to eminent writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi who passed away a day ago....
Indian national Gurdip Singh who was set to be executed by Indonesian authorities for drug smuggling has won a temporary reprieve as he was not among the four prisoners executed by a firing squad early on Friday in that country. ...
Chelsea Clinton beamed with pride as she introduced her mother Hillary Clinton on Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia where the former secretary of state will formally accept the presidential nomination. ...
Promising a populist agenda to build a better nation based on unity, Hillary Clinton on Thursday night aceppted the Democratic Party's historic presidential nomination making her the first women candidate of a major US party and challenged Republican rival Donald Trump on what she said was his message of hate and divisiveness....