Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK will contest all 30 seats in Puducherry in May on its own, AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa said on Monday. ...
The widow of a former head of the Namdhari sect was killed when unidentified assailants fired at her from close range here on Monday, police said. ...
A new investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and more than 100 other news organisations around the globe reveals the offshore links of some of the planet's most prominent people, including over 500 from India. ...
Despite the sweltering heat, brisk polling was recorded with over 63 percent of the electorate exercising their franchise in the first six hours of voting in 18 constituencies in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly elections on Monday. There will be seven days of polling for 294 assembly seats. The last day of polling is...
AIADMK general secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa announced on Monday that she will seek re-election from the Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency here. At a time when other parties are finalising seat sharing arrangements with others, Jayalalithaa released the list of AIADMK candidates for Tamil Nadu, Puducherry ...
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday took oath as Jammu and Kashmir's first woman chief minister heading a 22-member coalition ministry with the BJP -- and in no time attended office. Mehbooba Mufti, 56 and now a Lok Sabha member, was sworn in by Governor N.N. Vohra at Raj Bhavan here, almost three months after the state came under Governor's ...
A day after a news channel claimed having a copy of a letter from solar scam co-accused Saritha Nair disclosing that Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy sexually abused her, Chandy said he was mulling legal action over the disclosures....
Nearly a quarter of Assam's electorate on Monday voted in the first four hours of the first round of assembly elections to pick 65 legislators, officials said. About 23 percentage of the 9.5 million voters had exercised their franchise from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., the officials said. The 65 constituencies which saw polling on Monday are mainly located...
Voting for the first phase of assembly elections began in West Bengal on Monday in 18 constituencies spread across the three western districts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia amid tight security....
Carlos Brathwaite let loose sledge-hammer blows, cracking four back-to-back huge sixes to catapult West Indies to their second World Twenty20 title with a stunning four-wicket victory over England in a nerve-wracking final at the Eden Gardens here on Sunday....