Mr. Yechury is the fifth general secretary of the 50-year-old party. The party’s new Central Committee has 91 members besides five special invitees and five permanent invitees. Veteran leaders V.S. Achuthanandan, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and Nirupam Sen were d ....

 Telecom watchdog Trai Chairman Rahul Khullar on Sunday said “shrill voices” will not win the Net neutrality debate and the concept is not “practiced strictly” even in countries like the U.S. and the U.K. The principle of Net Neutrality calls ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked the opposition for trying to project the government as anti-poor on the issue of land acquisition Bill. “Lies are being spread on land Bill by “perverted minds”. Some people have decided not to speak, see ....

A Punjab jail is in the thick of controversy after woman dancers performed on its premises during a Baisakhi function allegedly organised by an undertrial in a murder case. The undertrial is alleged to have close links with a political bigwig. A report by Amritsar Jail S ....

Thirty three out of 55. That was Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s score when enumerators came to his official residence here Thursday morning with a questionnaire as part of the state’s ambitious ‘socio-educational census’, better known as the ....

Two Navy-escorted passenger ships with 475 people, including Bangladesh nationals and Yemenese of Indian origin, evacuated from the conflict-hit Yemen arrived here on Saturday, bringing down the curtains on the massive rescue operation undertaken by the government. & ....

In a major decision, the Union government on Thursday transferred the Training and Apprenticeship verticals of the Directorate General of Employment & Training (DGET) from the Labour Ministry to the newly constituted Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurshi ....

More than 40 days after Governor Ram Naresh Yadav was booked for his alleged role in the MPPEB scam, Madhya Pradesh High Court Friday granted him interim relief by effectively staying his arrest but allowing investigations against him to continue. The Special Task Force ....

 In a major relief to St. Stephen’s suspended student Devansh Mehta, the Delhi High Court on Friday stayed his suspension, issued a notice to the college principal and barred the college from awarding the prize that was withdrawn from the student to anyone else u ....

Additional Sessions Judge Sudesh Kumar adjourned the case for hearing on April 20 as the concerned judge, who is hearing the matter, was on leave on Friday. In his plea, Dr. Pachauri said he has to participate in the summit as he has given the confirmation for it and ....