
Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres emerged as the surprise front-runner for the post of Secretary General in the first informal poll of the Security Council in an early set back to expectations that a East European woman would be the top contender for the job, according to diplomats unofficially briefed on the secre...

The tiff between the media and the lawyers community in Kerala appears to have been resolved with the intervention of Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur who held talks with representatives of the journalists in the national capital on Friday....
The government is not in favour of compulsory military training to youth in the country, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre told the Lok Sabha on Friday....
After apologising to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for posting a video on security zones in Parliament House complex, Aam Aadmi Party lawmaker Bhagwant Mann has removed the clipping from his Facebook account....
A pastor and his friend were abducted and brutally thrashed in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, by a band of Bajrang Dal activists over the allegation of forced conversion, a police official said on Friday....
A civilian protester was killed in a clash with security forces in south Kashmir on Friday, a day before Home Minister Rajnath Singh is set to arrive here to review the situation in the state....
CBI Special Judge Gurdeep Singh on Friday extended till August 3 the interim bail granted to senior Corporate Affairs Ministry officer B.K. Bansal, who has been arrested on charge of accepting a bribe....

Donald Trump after formally accepting the Republican party's presidential nomination, painted a bleak picture of America sliding deeper into poverty, violence and corruption and declared himself the only person who could avert disaster....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday laid the foundation stones of an All India Medical Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and a fertiliser plant in Gorakhpur and said this would spur development in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Addressing a large gathering after the foundation laying ceremony, Modi initially addressed the crowd in Bhojp...
South Indian megastar Rajinikanth's latest release "Kabali" hit Mumbai with thousands of fans celebrating at the Aurora Theatre in King's Circle and other parts of Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai on Friday. "The reaction to the film is ecstatic. The atmosphere inside the cinema hall is electrifying," grinned Nambi Rajan, the owner of Aurora Theatre, which created history...