Amid continuing criticism over the announcement of a unilateral ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir during the Muslim holy month of Ramzan, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday once again asserted and clarified that the government hasn’t tied the hands of the security forces. On May 16, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs announced that

Iranian Foreign Minister Dr Mohammad Javad Zarif, who arrived here on Monday on a one-day visit, stressed upon the idea of strengthening relations shared by the two countries.

"We (India and Iran) have had very good relations in the past and we expect to continue these relations. We will have a number of meetings today and

“I have no desire to live...all I pray for is death,” Sunanda Pushkar wrote in an e-mail to her husband Shashi Tharoor nine days before she was found dead i

The Election Commission denied on Monday that voting machines in by-elections failed on “large scale” after opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh said voters were cheated and the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in Maharashtra’s Palghar Lok Sabha seat complained of glitches.

Tabassum Hasan, who is contesting the Kairana

Former president Pranab Mukherjee will be the chief guest at the valedictory session of the ‘Tritiya Varsh Varg’ or the Third Year Course organised by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) in June this year. The Sangh leadership invites eminent people every year for the annual event held at its headquarters at Reshim Bagh in Nagpur.<

Tamil Nadu chief minister EK Palaniswami announced on Monday that a government order has been issued, directing the state pollution control board to seal Vedanta group's copper plant in Thoothukudi, or Tuticorin, and close it down "permanently" following last week's violent protests during which 13 people were killed in police

JD(S) Supremo H D Deve Gowda said on Monday he had offered to support a Congress-led government in Karnataka after the fractured verdict in the Assembly polls but the latter insisted on H D Kumaraswamy becoming the chief minister.

Gowda said during his hour-long discussion with senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ashok Ge

Amid ongoing tussle between Janata Dal (S) and Congress combine over distribution of portfolios, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has courted a controversy saying he is at the 'mercy' of Congress and not the 6.5 crore people of Karnataka.'

The Chief Minister on Monday again reiterated his remarks when quest

Twelve Naxals were today arrested from separate places in Chhattisgarhs insurgency-hit Bijapur district, police said.

Bijapur Superintendent of Police Mohit Garg told PTI that six Naxals were apprehended from the forest near Dalla village under Basaguda police station limits, five from areas falling under Bedre police station and one f