BJP rallies behind Raje, son Under fire over the Lalit Modi episode, a determined BJP stuck to its defence of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday met Ms. Raje in Jaipur aft ....

As the controversy over External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj facilitating travel papers for ‘scam-tainted’ former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi rages on, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday found a parallel in the Pete ....

And, foreigners helped India clock a second record — that of the largest number of foreign nationals in a single yoga lesson with participation from 84 countries. When he stepped up to address the gathering of yoga practitioners lined up on Rajpath — whic ....

“What is this?” said C.K.S. Shanmugasundaram, a Yoga consultant who had come from Tamil Nadu to participate in the inaugural ceremony. “I’m sorry to say that this is against the spirit of yoga. They want to make it international but here at the n ....

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who often obliges people with a selfie, on Sunday refused one to a volunteer while participating in the yoga day event at Rajpath. Soon after addressing the gathering, Mr. Modi climbed down from the podium to join over 35,000 participa ....

Mr. Modi is at the centre of a storm over the help he got from External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, though he is facing an Enforcement Directorate investigation into cases of foreign exchange violations while he ran the s ....

The BJP’s defence came on a day Ms. Raje, who is facing a storm over her secret witness statement supporting the former IPL boss’ immigration plea in Britain, cancelled her visit to Anandpur Sahib in Punjab where she would have met party president Amit Shah ....

Mr. Roy has been in Tihar jail for over a year. However, things touched ground zero for Mr. Roy when his counsel and senior advocate Kapil Sibal informing the court that the bank has "backed out" from giving the guarantee and there is no money currently for ....

A vacation bench headed by Justice R.K. Agrawal extended the time on the CBSE’s plea seeking three months time for conducting the test again. On June 15, the court, while cancelling the examination held on May 3, gave the CBSE four weeks time to reconduct the e ....

During extensive talks Prime Minister Narendra Modi had with Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, both the countries also decided to establish a Joint Working Group to strengthen cooperation in counter terrorism. The MoUs signed included a loan agreement betwee ....