Caitu Silva, a legislator of the ruling alliance in Goa, on Wednesday sarcastically said that if Hindus do not want to send their children to minority institution-run convent schools, then Catholic students would stand a better chance of admission....
A Saudi woman who was separated from her Indian mother after her parents divorced is trying frantically to locate her mother and the search has brought her to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), media reports said Wednesday....
The CPI-M said on Wednesday that the Andhra Pradesh Police claim on the killing of 20 people cutting red sanders wood was untenable and demanded compensation to the victims' families....
The body of an Indian student who died here last week after being pulled out from the sea, will, after all, be sent back to India with public donations worth N$23,000 (nearly $17,500) having been raised, the Dominion Post reported on Wednesday....

A strike called by transporters, fishermen and farmers' unions affected normal life in Kerala on Wednesday, with villages and coastal areas the worst hit. ...
Separatist Muhammad Yasin Malik on Wednesday opposed building composite townships for migrant Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir, calling these as "townships of hatred"....
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the AAP and its legislator Rituraj Govind on a plea seeking action against them for allegedly distributing to volunteers ID cards bearing the state emblem. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched a bank with a corpus of Rs.20,000 crore to extend credit of up to Rs.10 lakh to small businesses and regulate micro-finance institutions, to promote their growth, add to the country's output and create jobs....
The Congress on Tuesday attacked the BJP and its government in Maharashtra for deflecting attention from their "malgovernance" by raking up issues like the recent ban on beef in the state....
President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday praised the Aga Khan for the work done by his foundation towards sanitation, heritage conservation and rural development....