A court here on Tuesday fixed May 2 for delivering its order on framing of charges in a defamation case against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and two others after they appeared before it....

The Karnataka assembly was on Tuesday adjourned twice after opposition parties sought a CBI probe into the mysterious death of young IAS officer D.K. Ravi which police say was a suicide....
The opposition is determined to defeat the government's controversial land acquisition bill, Congress president Sonia Gandhi declared on Tuesday after leading leaders of 14 political parties in a protest march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's religious beliefs helped shape his political views and he has no desire to jettison Hindu nationalist ideology, says a new book and notes that Modi risks alienating a section of his supporters if he allows the more extreme elements of Hindutva to influence governance....
In a bid to overcome the differences within the AAP, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's loyalists have reached out to dissident senior leader Yogendra Yadav. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed "deep concern" over the gang rape of a 71-year-old nun in West Bengal's Nadia district and the vandalisation of a church in Hisar, Haryana, said an official statement....
The Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed the March 4, 2014, notification by the then UPA government extending OBC reservation to Jats in nine states, ignoring the recommendation of the National Commission for Backward Classes to the contrary....

Opposition parties, led by the Congress, on Tuesday raised in the Lok Sabha the issue of crimes against minorities, especially the attack on a church in Haryana and the alleged gang rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal. ...
At least 24 people were killed after a category 5 cyclone hit the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, authorities said on Tuesday. ...
There was an uproar in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday over comments by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in Assam where he reportedly said mosques are not religious places. ...