
Trinamool Congress, on Monday, afternoon announced the suspension of Atish Sarkar from Ashoknagar in North 24 Parganas district, over his derogatory remarks targeting the mothers and sisters of those protesting against the rape and murder of a junior doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital here. ...

The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) on Monday commemorated the 64th founding anniversary of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile by acknowledging the US and Canada for advocating the right to self-determination. ...

The raids by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) team at AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s residence on Monday led to a flurry of political reactions, with BJP stepping up its offensive on the Kejriwal government while the AAP claimed that it was a witch-hunt by the Centre to ‘harass’ their leaders. ...

A three-year-old child Anjali died and a 65-year-old woman was seriously injured in two separate incidents of attacks by wolves in Uttar Pradesh's (UP) Bahraich district in the wee hours of Monday. ...

Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday took strong exception to allegations that the Centre was using hatred as a political weapon and accused the Opposition parties of lending support to ‘conspirators’ and ‘cyber conspiracy syndicates’. ...

The Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut claimed that Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is ‘ignorant’ of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s history on the Surat raids and offered to send a ‘masterji’ to help polish his historical knowledge, here on Monday. ...

The Assam government has regularised the jobs of nearly 24,000 contractual teachers working in primary schools across the state. ...

Yemen's Houthi group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a cargo ship named "Groton" in the Gulf of Aden. ...

The steady spread of radicalisation in the Muslim world, the deepening Sunni-Shia conflict in the Middle East and the growing impact of the historical religious divides on the current geopolitics, are the ongoing trends that should cause concern to the democratic world. ...

Residents of the Australian island state of Tasmania have been told to prepare to evacuate their homes and businesses amid heavy rainfall and severe winds. ...