India has called for drastic reforms in the election of the secretary-general to introduce transparency and choice in the process of picking a successor to Ban Ki-moon next year and said it should not be a prerogative of the five permanent members of the Security Council....
Famed author Vikram Seth says that he would return his award, if the Sahitya Akademi fails to protect the lives and rights of writers....
A soldier shot dead four of his relatives, including a minor, in a village in Punjab's Sangrur district on Tuesday before police surrounded him and shot him dead after he refused to surrender, police said. ...
Attacking tthe Congress over a US media report about payment of bribes to local officials in India by retail giant Walmart, the BJP said on Tuesday that the corruption of UPA is giving a bad name to the country....
The Congress on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had failed in his "constitutional and moral obligations" by not against those spreading hatred....
President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday hoped that Durga Puja "strengthen the moral foundations of our society and turn us away from all that divides and destroys"....
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hand over Delhi Police and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to the AAP government, citing a survey that said the city police were "most corrupt"....
One of the country's oldest politicians, CPI-M veteran V.S. Achuthanandan turned 92 on Tuesday doing what he excels in -- blasting his rivals....
Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav was convicted by a court here on Tuesday for raping a woman executive on the night of December 5, 2014, in his taxi she hired to head back home in Delhi's Inderlok area. ...
"Extremist elements" in India do not want improvement in relations with Pakistan, Islamabad's High Commissioner here Abdul Basit has said. ...
