The mass appeal of Hardik Patel in Gujarat "does not augur well for the BJP", the Shiv Sena said on Friday, calling him "a hero" who had punctured claims that Gujarat was a peaceful state....
A former archbishop and Vatican envoy to the Dominican Republic died on Friday before he could be tried for child sex offences, an official statement said....
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday concluded his three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir after paying obeisance at two shrines in the Valley. ...
Pakistan on Friday summoned Indian High Commissioner TCA Raghavan to the Foreign Office and lodged a strong protest over the ceasefire violations on the Line of Control and Working Boundary, media reported....
The nationwide protest screening of a documentary on the Muzaffarnagar riots was stalled by police -- who were allegedly tipped off by Bharatiya Janata Party supporters -- in four cities across India, organisers said on Friday....
Bihar's ruling JD-U has collected 1.5 million hair and nail samples of its party leaders, workers and supporters to send to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a DNA test, in protest against his comment questioning Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's DNA at a public rally....
The issue of special status to Andhra Pradesh continues to claim lives with one person committing suicide and another dying of a heart attack on Friday....
Slamming the Left Front over its "violent" peasants rally, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the Marxists won't come to power in the state for 1,000 years....

Roughly 32,000 new voters enrolled in each constituency for this year's assembly election in Bihar may play a decisive role in determining the ultimate poll result. The presence of these new voters becomes important in the light of the fact that during the last two assembly elections in the state, the victory margins of many of the winning candidates ranged between...

Mikhail Bora, the son of media honcho Indrani Mukherjea who was arrested for killing her daughter Sheena Bora, on Friday left for Mumbai for further interrogation in the case. ...