The Arvind Kejriwal government on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court, challenging the union home ministry's May 21 notification that said the lt. governor has discretionary powers for appointments and transfers to key bureaucratic posts in the capital. ...

BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday launched a scathing attack on former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi over misgovernance and fostering corruption....
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will join Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his two-day official visit to Bangladesh beginning on June 6, a state minister said here on Thursday. ...
The searing heat wave continued unabated on Thursday in many parts of India, claiming another 65 lives in Andhra and Telangana alone while rains brought relief in some states, officials said....
A US court has sentenced an Indian-American student to life imprisonment for stabbing his friend to death in 2013, media reported....

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at the ruling BJP and its ideological mentor RSS and accused the Narendra Modi government of using its brand of discipline to "kill ...
Taking a dig at the BJP-led government, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must have taken lessons on how to improve India's economy...
President Pranab Mukherjee will embark on a state visit to Sweden and Belarus starting May 31, with his reported remarks to a Swedish daily on the controversial Bofors issue having no bearing on the visit....
The Sri Lankan government on Thursday said it has proposed an increase in the number of seats in parliament in order to have more representation of the minorities and women, an official said. ...
Remains of a new species of humans, which scientists have dated between 3.3 million and 3.5 million years old, were discovered in Afar state of Ethiopia, a media report said on Thursday....