Top Congress leaders, including party Vice President Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, are expected to attend the swearing-in of Amarinder Singh as Punjab Chief Minister here on Thursday....

The agitating Madhesi Morcha, an alliance of seven political parties, on Tuesday...
At least two dozen people are feared trapped after a cold storage building collapsed...
The US Marine Corps' top general has vowed to prosecute those found responsible for...
The issue of the alleged suicide by a Dalit student of Jawaharlal Nehru University...
South Korean prosecutors summoned ex-President Park Geun-hye to undergo questioning...
After the Holi break, that followed the landslide victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the rout of the ruling Congress in the hill state of Uttarakhand, political activity is picking up on both sides of the spectrum. ...
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed multiple adjournments amid chaos over the Congress' allegations that the BJP "murdered democracy" by not honouring the people's mandate in Goa and Manipur assembly elections....
Challenging a commonly held theory that changes in the Earth's orbit triggered Sahara desertification, a new study suggests that humans may have played an active role in the transition of a lush green landscape into the world's largest hot desert thousands of years ago....
Veteran politician K.M. Mani on Wednesday completed 50 years as a legislator in the Kerala assembly -- elected every time from Pala constituency in Kottayam....