
Dalit and student organizations and others have given a statewide protest call against the ruling BJP and the Karnataka police on September 2, condemning the inaction against rape accused Lingayat seer Murugha Shivamurthy Sharanaru of Murugha mutt in Chitradurga of Karnataka....

Bad times continue for Priya Varghese, the wife of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's secretary K.K. Ragesh. On Wednesday the University Grants Commission informed the Kerala High Court that the three-year leave she took to do her PhD cannot be counted as teaching experience. ...

West Bengal chief minister and All-India Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that at times she feels that she would have quit politics. ...

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi's mother Paola Maino passed away at her home in Italy on Saturday and her funeral took place on Tuesday, party leaders said on Wednesday. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Kerala on Thursday on a two-day visit during which he will lay the foundation stone of Kochi Metro's second phase and also commission Indian Navy's first indigenously-designed and built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant. ...

Tension erupted in a village in Punjab's Tarn Taran district located close to the India-Pakistan border on Wednesday after a group of miscreants vandalised a three-story church and broke the statues of Mother Mary and Jesus Christ....

Religious fervour and gaiety marked Ganesh Chaturthi in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh....

Valiant effort of the Indian Army prevented a bridge collapse on the Chakki river over the Pathankot-Jogindernagar rail route in Himachal Pradesh, the armed forces said on Wednesday....

Six Rohingya girls, allegedly being taken to Delhi for the flesh trade racket, were rescued from a train in Bihar's Katihar by Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel and two men "escorting" them held, an official said on Wednesday. ...

The Shrikant Tyagi case is again in the limelight as Samajwadi Party's nine-member delegation is set to meet Tyagi's wife Anu Tyagi at her residence in Noida Sector 93-B at Omaxe Society, as per a letter issued by Akhilesh Yadav-led party. SP delegation, which will reach Noida on September 2, will first collect the correct information about the harassment...