New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s elevation to the post of party chief would give him the “right entitlement” to lead the alliance that takes on the BJP in the 2019 polls, senior party leader Salman Khurshid has said amid strong indications of the Gandhi scion’s promotion.

Khurshid also told PTI

Tokyo: Eleven Indian crew members were missing on Friday after their cargo ship sank in the Pacific off the Philippines as a typhoon churned in the region, Japan’s coastguard said.

The 33,205-tonne Emerald Star with 26 Indian nationals on board sent a distress signal early Friday as the Hong Kong-registered vesse

New Delhi: For a change, people all over the country may find strange way of celebrating Diwali this time around.

Yes, for the first time, both the ruling party and main Opposition Congress will be celebrating as Rahul Gandhi is going to take over as new party chief of the oldest party in the country. If Cong cadres fe

Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today shared the stage with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for the first time after the the JD(U) returned to the NDA fold.

Modi attended the centenary celebrations of the Patna University (PU) here along with Kumar.

“It is a day of great honour that Prime Minister

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that he has started to develop a much better relationship with Pakistan, a day after Pakistani forces rescued an American-Canadian family from the Haqqani terror network.

American citizen Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle along with their three children

Bhopal: A British tourist has died after he fell from the roof of Laxminarayan Temple in Orchha in Madhya Pradesh, while clicking selfies, officials said.

The tourist — Roger S. Bury, fell from a height of about 20 feet on Friday and sustained serious injuries. He succumbed to the injuries in the hospital.

Bengaluru: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Saturday released three sketches of two suspects who had allegedly gunned down journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh outside her home in Rajarajeshwari Nagar area in Bengaluru on September 5.

The sketches were compiled after speaking to eyewitnesses and perusing CCTV r

Renowned Carnatic musician T M Krishna will be getting the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for 2015-2016, reports a news agency.

T M Krishna had earlier won the Magsaysay award for bringing ‘social inclusiveness in culture’.

A renowned artist