Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami urged all parties to shed their differences and unite to secure the state's rights in the Cauvery river water dispute with neighbouring Karnataka.

The Supreme Court on February 16 reduced Tamil Nadu's share of the river water to 177.25 tmcft, down from

Jakarta: At least five people have been killed and 15 are still missing after a landslide cascaded down the terraced slopes of a rice field on the Indonesian island of Java on Thursday, officials said.

The victims, farmers tending their crops in Brebes district, Central Java, were buried under an avalanche of mud

New Delhi: Union Minister Babul Supriyo on Wednesday called for a temporary ban on Pakistani artists for working in the Hindi film industry.

Supriyo, a singer-turned-politician, had said Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's voice in the song "Ishtehar" from "Welcome To New York" must be removed and dubbe

New Delhi: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has started following some senior Congress leaders on Twitter of late, triggering speculation over his sudden interest in the party that he was once close to and had later drifted away from.

After following Congress president Rahul Gandhi and the party's official

New Delhi:  AAP minister Rajendra Pal Gautam was detained here on Thursday as he was moving towards Home Minister Rajnath Singh's residence along with some party workers to protest against the "casteist remarks" made by Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash.

This came two days after the Aam Aadmi Party's

New Delhi: Karti Chidambaram on Thursday has moved the Supreme Court seeking stay on the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) summons against him.

 The apex court will hear the matter on February 23.

On February 21, a Delhi Court extended ED remand of S. Bhaskaran, Karti Chidambaram's Chartered

New Delhi: India has been ranked 81st in the global corruption perception index for 2017, released by Transparency International, which named the country among the "worst offenders" in terms of graft and press freedom in the Asia Pacific region.

The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by the

Maharashtra: The ED today said it has frozen mutual funds and shares worth Rs 94.52 crore of the Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi groups in connection with a money-laundering probe against them in the Rs 11,400-crore alleged fraud at the Punjab National Bank (PNB).

It also seized nine high-end luxury cars of Modi