Parents in Kerala with toddlers in tow were seen rushing to temples, clubs, media organisations and churches on Vijaydashmi, as Dussehra is called here, as thousands of tiny tots were initiated into the world of letters....
Violence again erupted in Kannauj, the parliamentary constituency of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife, and the situation continued to be tense on Friday, a day after a youth was killed, police said....
Tension gripped the hilly Bhaderwah town in Jammu region on Friday over allegations that miscreants desecrated the Quran. ...
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came to the US with a litany of complaints against India with the hope of getting an India type nuclear deal and involving Washington in the Kashmir issue. He got neither....
Nearly 100 writers took out a peaceful march here on Friday to protest against increasing intolerance in the country. ...

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday attacked his ally, the BJP, over rising food prices and warned that governments can fall because of unchecked price rise....

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday greeted the country on the auspicious occasion of Dussehra and in a message of unity said he hoped that compassion, love and brotherhood prevail over all forces of obscurantism and evil that seek to divide the nation....
Union minister V.K. Singh on Thursday triggered a huge row when he spoke of a dog's stoning while commenting on the burning of two Dalit children. As opposition parties demanded his sacking, the former army chief clarified that he had been misunderstood....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised to fulfil in letter and spirit all the commitments made in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. ...
Union Minister V.K. Singh on Thursday blamed a family feud for the burning alive of two Dalit children in Haryana and drew an analogy that if someone throws stones at a dog, the government is not responsible....