"Today morning, the water level of the Jhelum river was 12 feet at Sangam (Anantnag). It was 15.15 feet at Ram Munshibagh (Srinagar) and 11 feet at Asham (Bandipora). At all these places, the river is flowing below the danger mark," a senior official of the flood control department told IANS on Thursday in Srinagar....
The Mamata Banerjee government on Wednesday issued prohibitory orders banning the entry of VHP international vice president Praveen Togadia in West Bengal, arguing that his presence could lead to "communal tension" and disturb public tranquillity....
Condemning the calling of Indian revolutionaries as terrorists, RSS chief Mohan Bhagawat on Wednesday said "saffronisation" was imperative to rectify the country's "distorted history"....
Veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Wednesday flayed Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone's video on women empowerment as "height of lack of consciousness"....
Union minister Giriraj Singh's racist remarks suggesting Sonia Gandhi was made Congress president for being a "white-skinned" person caused a national outrage on Wednesday with the Congress demanding his dismissal and an apology from the prime minister....
Beleaguered Kerala Finance Minister K.M. Mani, who is an accused in a bribery case, expressed his displeasure on Wednesday after the police did not proceed against three other ministers over the same allegations levelled by a whistleblower bar owner....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged the international community to harden its stance on a nuclear deal with Iran and insist on a "better deal" that would prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons....
The 350 Indian nationals evacuated from strife-torn Yemen have reached Djibouti and will be brought back to India by an Indian Air Force plane on Wednesday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said....
The BJP on Wednesday said that crossing the nine crore mark in its membership drive will reflect in the upcoming assembly polls....
The prosecution in Salman Khan's hit-and-run case here on Wednesday made a fervent plea before the court to reject the claim of the Bollywood actor's driver that he was driving the killer vehicle when it left one pavement dweller dead in 2002....
