Ed Miliband on Friday resigned as the Labour Party leader after the loss of his party to Prime Minister David Cameron's Tories and a thrashing by the Scotland National Party (SNP) in the British general elections....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday recalled the pioneering work of Swami Chinmayananda in the field of education and social reform, as he released a coin commemorating his birth centenary....
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi appeared before a Thane court in connection with a criminal defamation suit here on Friday....
The condition of the three Sports Authority of India (SAI) athletes from Kerala who attempted suicide at water sports centre at Vembanad is improving, a doctors looking after their treatment said....
Jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali, who came under attack after her tweets related to Bollywood actor Salman Khan's 2002 hit-and-run case were considered demeaning towards the homeless, has offered an "unconditional" apology. ...
The ambassadors of the Philippines and Norway and the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors were killed on Friday when a Pakistan Army helicopter crashed on a school in Gilgit-Baltistan territory....
A Lok Sabha member on Friday demanded a special session of parliament to commemorate 125th anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar....
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said the UPA government had given the same answer in May 2013 in response to a question on the location of Dawood Ibrahim as had the NDA government earlier this week....

Members of Parliament from Kerala raising slogans during a demonstration in front of the Gandhi statue at Parliament House demanding withdrawal of complete ban on fishing to protect traditional fishermen in New Delhi on May 8, 2015. (Photo: IANS)...
The Rajya Sabha was stalled on Friday as opposition parties led by the Congress demanded the resignation of union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari for alleged irregularities in a company owned by him....