Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa on Sunday appealed to party workers to end their state-wide protests against TNCC president E.V.K.S. Elangovan for his alleged derogatory remarks over her August 7 meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in C ....

“My father was in the Army, my father-in-law was in the Army and my husband is in the Army,” she said. She said she had discussed the issue with her father, and the former Chief of the Army Staff had written a 10-page letter to Prime Minister Narendra Mod ....

The Biju Janata Dal’s chief whip in the Lok Sabha, Tathagata Satpathy, shook awake a rather somnolent Lok Sabha in the recent monsoon session by advocating legalisation of cannabis. This startling advocacy was certainly not the official position of his party. & ....

 For Mohammad Haseeb, a grocer’s son, living in the village of Kifayatullah Richhola, located in the Nawabganj subdivision of Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district, getting through the Uttar Pradesh State Pre-Medical Test in 2013 was a huge achievement: the fir ....

Asian markets were also in deep red with Shanghai shares crashing 8 per cent on concerns that the Chinese economy was slowing more than previously thought. Taking cues from global markets, the Sensex nosedived 1,006.54 points, or 3.67 per cent, to 26,359.53—&md ....

In the letterhead used for sending out the appreciation letters, there were two mistakes. While Minister was spelt “minster,’ the Hindi word for “Resource” in “Human Resource Development’’ was also misspelt. This was flagged ....

A Bench led by Chief Justice of India H.L. Dattu, however, said the provisional attachment order issued by the ED would stay alive even if the 180-day period for confirming the attachment order was over. Order under PMLA The ED had ordered provisional attachment o ....

The Hindu filed a request under the Right to Information Act for details of the response to the programme on July 20. The information sought was solely from AIR and did not count online responses. The reply shows that Mann Ki Baat was a big draw on December 14, 2014, wh ....

06 first time voter at magadi ward sreenivasa First-time voter at Magadi ward. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy 11.13 a.m. Whitefield residents say that the names on the EVM were only in Kannada, making it difficult for sections of people to make an informed vote. Zibi ....

In a late-night response, Pakistan accused India of “reneging” on commitments made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Ufa talks with his counterpart Nawaz Sharif. At the end of the day the deadlock over whether Mr. Aziz would meet Hurriyat leaders re ....