Campaigning in the Chengannur Assembly constituency for the May 28 by-election has finally gathered steam as the ruling LDF, the opposition Congress-led UDF and the NDA led by the BJP are pulling out all stops to woo the voters. ...
This year -- the year before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections -- was to witness elections in a total of eight states. Three are already done, and it will be interesting to see how voters' opinions shape electoral outcomes in the remaining five states....
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was released from police custody on Sunday after being detained for several hours the day before on charges of organising an unauthorised demonstration in Moscow against President Vladimir Putin. ...
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said that he was "super, super serious" about starting his own confections enterprise, the media reported....
Polling stations opened across Lebanon on Sunday for the first parliamentary elections in almost a decade....
Photographs of Prince Louis' first days at home have been released by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, including an image of the new royal baby being kissed by his older sister Princess Charlotte, the media reported on Sunday....
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that the BJP and RSS wanted Dalits and Adivasis to exist at the bottom rung of society. ...
Five militants including a Kashmir University teacher who went missing last week, were killed on Sunday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, police said. ...
Congress-affiliated NSUI on Saturday attacked right-wing elements for defacing St Stephens' chapel door with the slogan "Mandir Yahin Banega" (temple will be constructed here) and graveyard, saying such acts reflect an "utterly disgusting mentality" of the persons involved in defacement of structures....
A Delhi government inquiry report has confirmed the controversial "conversion" of a Pathan Era tomb to temple in the city and it said that a fresh complaint was lodged to hand it back to the government for restoration, an official told IANS on Saturday....
