Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reached out to the opposition for its support to run the government smoothly and invoked late Congress stalwarts and ...
Freedom fighter and West Bengal's senior most Left leader, Ashok Ghosh, who was state secretary of the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) for 65 years at a stretch, died here on Thursday. He was 92....

JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested for sedition 20 days ago, was released from the Tihar Jail here on Thursday evening and returned to the university campus amid noisy celebrations by hundreds of students and teachers....
The target of supplying electricity to nearly 18,500 villages in the country that do not have power connection will be met by March 31, 2017, a year ahead of schedule, Minister of State for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal said on Thursday. ...

The government faced a tough time in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday as opposition members raised the issue of what they called "hate and inflammatory" speeches by BJP MPs and legislators in different parts of the country. ...
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said India is the most secular country in the world despite its diversity and the fact that people of all faiths live here....
India's services sector activity fell to a three-month low amidst subdued growth in new orders, a key macro-economic data showed on Thursday. The Nikkei Business Activity index fell to a three-month low of 51.4 in February, from 54.3 in January, adding to expectations of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India following the union budget for 2016-17 m...

In an obvious attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said some people appeared reluctant to learn with age. ...
All India Forward Bloc leader Ashok Ghosh, who had been on ventilator support since last month, died on Thursday at a city hospital, doctors said. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called upon the political parties in parliament to work towards increasing accountability of the executive. Replying to the debate in the Lok Sabha on the motion of thanks to the president's address, Modi said there was no dearth of programmes for welfare of the people and huge sums of money go towards p...