Priyanka Vadra on Wednesday asked Smriti Irani why the IIIT in Amethi has not moved forward despite her being the human resource development minister. Irani questioned what the Gandhi family had done in its bastion for the past 60 years....
The incident involving Misbah N. Quadri - hailing from Ahmedabad, but living and working in the city since five years - comes barely a week after a Muslim MBA, Zeeshan Ali Khan was denied a job at Hari Krishna Exports Pvt. Ltd, a top ranking diamond company on religious grounds....
The Indian envoy to Sweden has warned Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter to edit references to the Bofors controversy made by President Pranab Mukherjee in an interview else the presidential visit to Oslo was "at risk of being cancelled", according to the daily....

Hours after rebutting the BJP's allegations of corruption and policy paralysis against the erstwhile UPA government, former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here....
In the biggest evacuation since the Second World War, authorities in Germany's fourth-largest city of Cologne on Wednesday started evacuating around 20,000 people after a 1,000-kg bomb was found in the north-east area of the city....

Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday said he was "misquoted" while commenting on a statement of ministerial colleague Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on meat-eating habits of people....
As President Pranab Mukherjee prepares to travel to Sweden on a three-day visit from Sunday, a controversy has been triggered over his telling Sweden's Dagens Nyheter daily that the Bofors gun issue was not a scandal but rather a "media trial"....

Mysuru, the cultural capital of Karnataka known the world over as the 'city of palaces', is decked out to welcome its new king, with elaborate preparations in place for the coronation of the erstwhile royal family's scion Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodiyar on Thursday as the 27th titular head....
Three police personnel were killed on Wednesday when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a police van in Pakistan's Karachi city. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid his tributes to country's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary....