
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday hinted that some measures are likely to further empower state-run banks legally to help them deal with the rising bad loans....
In a dramatic turn of events, Congress legislator Jitendra Sarkar on Monday resigned from the Tripura assembly and said he was rejoining the ruling CPI-M....
A judge of the Kerala High Court on Monday said he was offered money to influence his judgement in a smuggling case....

A special sessions court, which was to pronounce the quantum of sentence for those convicted of the massacre of 69 people at the Gulberg Housing Society here in 2002, on Monday put off its decision to June 9 with the arguments still continuing in the case....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday pitched India's economic growth story to attract investments from Switzerland. "I invite Swiss companies to be a key partner in India's economic growth," Modi said at a joint press conference with Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann. "The economic links between our two countries are strong and v...
In a bid to ensure that the BJP doesn't win both the Rajya Sabha seats from Jharkhand, the CPI-ML has decided for the first time to vote in the polls....
Nearly 60,000 people want Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan offered an extension, according to Change.org, an online petition platform. ...

Democratic party front-runner Hillary Clinton won Puerto Rico’s primary on Sunday, putting her on a trajectory to claim the party's presidential nomination on Tuesday....
The Congress party's Kerala unit president V.M. Sudheeran on Monday said it has been "falsely reported" that he has been singled out for most of the blame for the party's poor showing in the assembly elections. "Nothing of that sort happened and what took place was a fruitful and positive introspection. I am really surprised that false reports ...
Pakistan is not desperate to resume peace talks with India, a top official has said. There was no restlessness on the Pakistani side for a dialogue, Sartaj Aziz, the Adviser on Foreign Affairs to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was quoted as saying in a news report on Monday. But he quickly added on Sunday that if South Asia had to see peace, there ha...