A day after the detention orders of Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, an alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, were declared void by the Islamabad High Court (IHC), the home ministry of Pakistan's Punjab province reordered his detention on Saturday....

The summons issued to former prime minister Manmohan Singh to appear before a special court in connection with the allocation of coal blocks has come at an inappropriate time for the Congress. ...

The Congress party on Saturday condemned Delhi Police's "unnecessary and weird enquiries" about party vice president Rahul Gandhi and termed it "political espionage". Police denied "snooping" charges and said it was a routine enquiry....
As a Pakistani court ordered the release of an alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terrorist attack, the US asked Pakistan to follow through on its pledge to bring its perpetrators and sponsors to justice....

Indians' approval of their country's leadership more than doubled after Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP to a historic victory in Lok Sabha polls, but it also faces high expectations, according to a Gallup poll....
A senior Al Shabaab commander was killed in southern Somalia in a drone attack, a Kenyan security official confirmed on Friday....
A 35-year-old Kazakhstan woman was gang raped by three people here in a hotel where she had gone to meet them, police said on Friday. The culprits have been arrested....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said Sri Lanka has the potential to be India's strongest economic partner and it will have the first claim on India in its economic development....
Newly elected CPI-Ms' West Bengal secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra on Friday dismissed as a "minor thing" the slapping of a case against his wife and nephew for alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds, saying such "false cases" have been filed against over one lakh Marxist workers during the Trinamool Congress regime....
Surjya Kanta Mishra, now Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal assembly, will be the new state secretary of the CPI-M, the party announced here on Friday....