Criticizing Vice President Hamid Ansari about discrimination against Muslims, the VHP on Tuesday asked him to apologize or resign and take to politics. ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "stop the rhetoric (and) chest thumping", and deliver the promises he made ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. ...

A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip BSE Sensitive Index (Sensex), on Tuesday tanked a further 677.26 points or 2.58 percent during the afternoon session....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that development should be the main agenda in the Bihar assembly polls....

Employees of public sector banks and government-owned non-life insurance companies would go on strike on Wednesday to protest against the anti-trade union and worker policies of the central government, union leaders said on Tuesday. ...
A Pakistani daily on Tuesday described as "antediluvian" a village council in India's Uttar Pradesh state ordering the rape of two young sisters after their brother eloped with a married woman. ...
The Congress on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of centralising power and anti-democratic functioning, three days after 16 secretaries were removed without "consulting any minister"....

Aranmula (Kerala), Aug 31 The Sabarimala temple will shortly get the status of a national pilgrimage centre, central Culture and Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma said here on Monday....
A plea was filed on Monday in Delhi High Court seeking to restrain New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) from issuing a notification regarding changing the name of Aurangzeb Road to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Road in the late former president's honour. ...

Drawing parallels between the cold blooded killings of bloggers in Bangladesh and the murder of M.M. Kalburgi, a writer and rationalist from Karnataka, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin said the incident showed the growing intolerance of religious fanatics in both India and Bangladesh....