Despite heavy rains, some 76 percent of the 184,210 electorate voted on Saturday in the Kerala assembly by-election in Aruvikara here which saw a triangular contest involving the CPI-M, the Congress and the BJP....
Goa Archbishop Filile Neri Ferrao on Saturday said "clouds of fear and insecurity" were looming large over the minorities in the country while expressing solidarity with a 48-year-old Catholic nun from Raipur who was gang raped on June 19. ...
VHP activists on Saturday pelted stones at a Jan Shatabdi express train in Bihar's Jehanabad district to enforce a shutdown called to protest the police firing on people, police said....
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has been admitted in a private hospital here following high fever, a doctor said on Saturday....
India on Saturday asked its envoy in New Zealand to return following allegations that his wife assaulted a member of the domestic staff. The envoy said he was not leaving because of the assault allegations but because he wanted to take care of his mother living in India....
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday slapped a showcause notice on former minister Raj Purohit for his purported utterances, captured in a sting operation, showing the party and its leaders in a bad light....
The NITI Aayog should act as a single window which states can approach in all matters related to centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) and other development schemes, according to Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy....
India's High Commissioner to New Zealand Ravi Thapar on Saturday said he was not leaving the country because of assault allegations against his wife but because he wanted to take care of his mother living in India....

An assembly by-election here that AIADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa must win to remain the Tamil Nadu chief minister ended on Saturday evening with tens of thousands voting. ...

The man who is instrumental in inviting the wrath of the opposition on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leader Narendra Modi now appears to be seeking to make amends, after the party said it would seek an interpol 'red corner notice' against him....