New Delhi: Salman Rushdie on Tuesday said that it was very convenient for everyone in the Congress that he did not come to India just before the Uttar Pradesh elections scheduled in February-March....

New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar's name has not been recommended for the Bharat Ratna award. Sources have said that the BCCI did not send any names, not even Sachin's. They say that the Sports Ministry has recommended the names of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand and mountaineer Tenzing Norgay for India's highest civilian honour.....

Jaipur: In a new twist to the Salman Rushdie controversy, Rajasthan government today said it would not allow the controversial author’s proposed video link address to the Jaipur Literature Festival without prior permission.....

DEHRADUN: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday joined the burgeoning list of political figures that have had a shoe hurled at them. The Amethi MP, who kicked off his campaign in Uttarakhand at Vikas Nagar near Dehradun, was unfazed as a 35-year-old man identified as Kuldeep Singh hurled a shoe at the dais. It landed 10 metres short of the target.....

Jodhpur: The CBI on Monday  continued to record the statements of the witnesses in the Bhanwari Devi case to plug all possible loopholes in its investigation that might emerge during trial of the case.....

Mumbai: Stating that the anti-corruption agitation by Team Anna is a "corporate-sponsored media campaign", writer Arundhati Roy on Friday said that the law (Lokpal) they are advocating is "un-Gandhian"....

NEW DELHI: Challenges rising from Pakistan would remain the most serious security test for India over the next decade, says Naresh Chandra, chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, who is also heading a taskforce on reviewing the country's security architecture....

New Delhi, Jan 21: A Delhi court today reserved its order for February 4 on Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy’s plea seeking prosecution of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G scam case.....

New Delhi: It seems that the battle between the Army Chief and the government is now a full-fledged political one. The BJP, and even supporting UPA parties, have attacked the government for mishandling the issue. The Prime Minister himself is now looking for a solution in a desperate bid to prevent the issue from escalating further.....

New Delhi: Despite legal legitimacy, live-in relationships are largely perceived to be immoral and it is a fad visible only in urban areas, a Delhi court observed today while dubbing it as “infamous western cultural product”....