With the Uttar Pradesh and Punjab assembly polls next year in view, the Congress on Sunday made senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kamal Nath in charge of the party affairs in these states....

Hundreds of people in Alappuzha and Kollam districts have been moved to relief camps following torrential monsoon rains in Kerala since the past three days, an official said on Sunday....
Days after the Delhi government slapped a fine of over Rs 600 crore on five private hospitals for not providing free-of-cost medicare to poor patients, Max Super Specialty Hospital-Saket on Sunday clarified that it had treated thousands of poor since its inception....

West Bengal Pradesh Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday urged the Centre to put pressure on the Afghanistan government for securing the release of an Indian woman aid worker abducted by unidentified gunmen in the Afghan capital....

The anti-Sikh riots of 1984 could emerge as a major political issue in the run up to the assembly elections in Punjab, even as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday flayed the BJP for waking up to the cause of the riot victims so late. ...

Fresh from its electoral victory in Assam and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's successful overseas trip, including the US, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday asserted that the two years of NDA government have been exceptionally good and a lot has been achieved....

Officers entered the Pulse Club about three hours after the shooting unfolded, and shot dead the attacker who had taken several hostages, BBC reported....

Indian star Saina Nehwal defeated Chinese Sun Yu to win the women's singles title of the $750,000 Australian Badminton Open Superseries here on Sunday....
The two-day National Executive conclave of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) begins here Sunday evening to fine tune the party's strategy for Uttar Pradesh assembly elections that are due next year....
Once one of the three pillars of the BJP along with Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani, Murali Manohar Joshi is now nowhere on the party's leadership spectrum here at the National Executive meeting...