In political circles as well as among many general voters of Kerala the result of last year's Aruvikkara assembly byelection has now become a point of discussion. O. Rajagopal, a front ranking leader of the BJP's Kerala unit, had finished third but the party increased its vote share to 23.96 percent from the paltry 6.6 percent it was able to garner...
Rights activist and former bureaucrat Harsh Mandar on Monday said the young voices for justice and equality being raised in universities are the sparks which should lit the whole nation in these dark times....
Religious intolerance is a very real phenomenon in north India, senior Catholic clergy in India said on Monday, but noted that after the overwhelming loss in Delhi assembly elections in 2015, the Hindu right wing fringe had become "more tolerant"....
Cases of child sex abuse are not rampant among Roman Catholic priests in India as appears to be the case abroad, senior Catholic priests who arrived in Goa for a high-level conference said on Monday....
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba, accused of being associated with a front organisation of a banned Maoist outfit....
The daughter of journalist Kamala Saikia is furious that the BJP has fielded in Assam's assembly elections former ULFA militant Kushal Dowari, who is alleged to have killed her father....
A violent brawl erupted outside the community event at the Melbourne Showgrounds on Sunday when a small group of anti-Islam protestors clashed with anti-racism activists....
Mehbooba Mufti, 56, is scheduled to take oath as the 13th chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on April 4 in the stateÂ’s winter capital Jammu....
The RSS on Saturday said its leader Bhayyaji Joshi had not asked for any change in the national flag or anthem while deliberating on the difference between the state and the nation...
The gross district domestic product (GDDP) of the five districts that form Amravati region (Rs.51,947 crore), a part of backward Vidarbha, was Maharashtra’s lowest in 2013-14; yet it was more than Jammu and Kashmir (Rs.45,847 crore) in the same year....
