PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday took oath as Jammu and Kashmir's first woman chief minister heading a 22-member coalition ministry with the BJP -- and in no time attended office. Mehbooba Mufti, 56 and now a Lok Sabha member, was sworn in by Governor N.N. Vohra at Raj Bhavan here, almost three months after the state came under Governor's ...
A day after a news channel claimed having a copy of a letter from solar scam co-accused Saritha Nair disclosing that Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy sexually abused her, Chandy said he was mulling legal action over the disclosures....
Nearly a quarter of Assam's electorate on Monday voted in the first four hours of the first round of assembly elections to pick 65 legislators, officials said. About 23 percentage of the 9.5 million voters had exercised their franchise from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., the officials said. The 65 constituencies which saw polling on Monday are mainly located...
Voting for the first phase of assembly elections began in West Bengal on Monday in 18 constituencies spread across the three western districts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia amid tight security....
Carlos Brathwaite let loose sledge-hammer blows, cracking four back-to-back huge sixes to catapult West Indies to their second World Twenty20 title with a stunning four-wicket victory over England in a nerve-wracking final at the Eden Gardens here on Sunday....
The Congress on Sunday accused the BJP and its ideological mentor RSS of insulting national symbols and said "both are pursuing a cheap agenda to create a divide in the country and trying to twist the history of our independence"....
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday assured a Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) delegation that abducted Salesian Order priest Father Thomas Uzhunnallil is safe and all efforts are being taken to free him, a statement said....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred Saudi Arabia's highest civilian honour, the King Abdulaziz Sash, on Sunday, the second and final day of his visit to the Gulf kingdom....
Two leaders of different opposition parties on Sunday slammed Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's statement that those who do not say 'Bharat mata ki jai' should leave India and called it a "ploy to divert attention from relevant issues"...
A piece of debris thought to be from the Malaysian airliner that went missing more than two years ago over the Indian Ocean has been found in the island nation of Mauritius, media reported on Sunday. ...
