More than a month after a Delhi court discharged suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda in an alleged 1994 Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) case, a Delhi sessions court on Thursday discharged the 73-year-old in two more case ....

The death toll in the Kosi-Seemanchal belt, where a cyclonic storm destroyed several acres of land, has risen to 48 even as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced compensation to farmers whose crops were damaged. According to Kumar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had already s ....

A reluctant opposition was forced into a debate on the agrarian situation by a sharp intervention from Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. After an hour had passed post lunch with the Opposition’s tactics ranging from demands for the prime mi ....

Farewells in the Rajya Sabha are usually solemn, at times emotional. On Thursday, it was also about comradeship as MPs across parties rooted for the return of a member freshly retired. One by one, opposition and ruling coalition MPs asked CPM general secretary Sitaram Ye ....

The third edition of Delhi Literature Festival provided the much required platform to writers and book lovers. The Third Delhi Literature Festival (DLF) concluded on April 19 at Triveni Kala Sangam in the Capital. The three-day festival was inaugurated by the chairpers ....

At his home in Nangal Jhamarwada in Bandikui, from where set out two days ago, Gajendra Singh Kalyanvat always hoped to be a ‘kisan neta’. He had missed a Samajwadi Party ticket for the assembly elections in 2008 by a whisker. The lost opportunity had dishearten ....

For the second day running, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh was forced to assure the Lok Sabha, amid noisy scenes, that the government did not endorse the anti-minority views aired by various right-wing organisations. “We want the sense of fear in minorities to be r ....

Cyber criminals are now using social networking sites to target users in India. According to a report from Symantec, a security solutions provider, India ranked second among nations that were most targeted for cyber crimes through the social media in 2014, after the US. ....

 The Maharashtra government on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that its decision to ban cattle slaughter was not connected to religion. “Religion has nothing to do with it. That is not the State’s contention,” Advocate-General Sunil Manohar to ....

At least 42 people were killed, more than 100 injured and crops damaged when a thunderstorm hit the north-eastern border districts of Bihar late on Tuesday night. “It was a strong storm with a wind speed of more than 150 kmph. Purnia is the worst-affected district, ....