A day after influential Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband issued a fatwa that it was not proper for Muslims to chant "Bharat Mata ki Jai", the Indian Muslim leadership stood divided on the issue. ...
Giving a boost to the Congress-Left Front tie-up for the coming West Bengal assembly polls, CPI-M leaders on Saturday shared the dais with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi at his three election meetings in the state. ...
Activists here on Saturday blamed the BJP-led Maharashtra government after various women activists were assaulted and prevented by villagers from praying at Shani Shingnapur Temple in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar....
The list includes former communists K.R. Gowri, 95, who has contested every election starting from the first; eight-time legislator R. Balakrishna Pillai, 82, whose party has been accommodated as a friendly ally by the CPI-M, which has given a seat only to his son, three-time legislator K.B.Ganesh Kumar; six-time legislator P.C. George, 64; three-time legis...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Saturday from Washington on a two-day bilateral visit to Saudi Arabia on the third and final leg of his three-nation tour....
Never since its historical elections in the 1970s -- the peak of the Assam students' movement -- has the northeastern state generated so much interest in its polls nationally....
A day after the Bombay High Court ruled that no law prevented women's entry into places of worship, women activists seeking entry were assaulted and prevented by villagers from praying at the Shani Shingnapur Temple on Saturday....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue of change in Tier-2 visa rules with his British counterpart David Cameron during a bilateral meeting here on the sidelines of the Fourth Nuclear Security Summit....
It is probably such a realisation about the limited shelf-life of provocative endeavours which persuaded the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief, Mohan Bhagwat, to make a u-turn on his suggestion for encouraging the young to chant "Bharat Mata ki Jai"....
Self-styled Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders has said his presidential primary opponent Hillary Clinton owed him and his campaign an apology over an ongoing spat about donations from the fossil fuel industry. "Secretary Clinton, you owe us an apology. We were telling the truth," Sanders said on Friday in response to accusations from Clinton's campai...
