Cuban President Raul Castro met Pope Francis on Sunday at the Vatican, where he thanked the pontiff for his mediation in the process of normalising relations with the US and discussed the Pope's planned visit to the island in September....

Hundreds of farmers on Sunday burned effigies and posters of Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Eknath Khadse's for his recent remarks that tribal farmers don't commit suicide as they were "morally strong" and that the state government has no solutions to stop farmland suicides....
British Prime Minister David Cameron has formed his first all-Conservative cabinet after his party stormed to victory in this year's general election, Downing Street announced on Sunday....
Seeing red over the apparent bonhomie between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Congress and the CPI-M on Sunday charged the BJP and the Trinamool Congress of cosying up each other to suit mutual political interests....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday dedicated to the nation the upgraded IISCO Steel Plant (ISP), that houses the country's largest blast furnace and has been modernised by the central government at a cost of Rs.16,000 crore. ...
The Delhi government invited strong criticism from the BJP and Congress on Sunday for issuing a circular to its officials to report any news damaging reputation of the chief minister, his council of ministers and the government. ...

In a veiled dig at the erstwhile Congress-led UPA regime for scams, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the policy changes initiated by his government have led to India becoming the world's fastest growing country....

On March 10, 2014, President Pranab Mukherjee had promised a Citizens Group for 1857 that he would obtain from the government details on how India's First War of Independence will be commemorated. A change of government may have delayed the inquiries Rashtrapati Bhavan intended to make....

With a string of salvos fired at the Modi government since his return from a sabbatical, a combative Rahul Gandhi is being seen among his party leaders as a force behind "turning the tide" for a Congress that is desperate to regain its relevance vis-a-vis the country's realigned political equations....
Even a day after Hyderabad High Court termed the strike illegal and asked the employees to call off the strike immediately, over one lakh employees stayed away from duty....