In May, Chandy's Congress-led coalition government will begin its last of five years in office. If Chandy is able to breast the five-year tape, he will become only the second Congress chief minister after K. Karunakaran (1982-87) to complete a full term in office....
India has a low rank of 101 among the 133 countries measured for their social progress, even below some immediate neighbours such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, indicating the level of meeting basic human needs and well-being, among other factors....
The Goa Congress has criticised central minister Nitin Gadkari's controversial comment wherein he raked up the religion of two Bangladeshis who were arrested for raping a nun in West Bengal last month....
The Madras High Court declined on Friday to pass any orders on the petition for re-autopsy filed by the wife of a person who was shot dead by Andhra Pradesh Police on April 7, but directed six woodcutters' bodies to be preserved....
The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a plea by a group of farmers' organisations that the re-promulgated land ordinance be quashed as it was ultra vires of the Constitution and devoid of morality, and therefore the government should be restrained from enforcing it....
A Rajasthan Royals cricketer was approached a month ago for fixing 2015 Indian Premier League (IPL) matches, the team said on Friday....
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the prime accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that claimed 166 lives, was released from a jail in Pakistan on Friday, a day after a court suspended his detention....
Agreeing that the recent attacks on religious places has "dented" the Narendra Modi government's image, Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said these were "unacceptable" and the government follows a "zero tolerance" policy against those disturbing communal harmony in the country....
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in France on the first leg of a three-nation visit, was on Friday accorded a ceremonial welcome here....
Former legislator Rambeer Shokeen will be questioned by Delhi Police in connection with the recovery of arms from a plot belonging to dreaded gangster Neeraj Bawana and his family, officials said on Friday. ...
