Jagdishpur (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 17 (IANS) Congress general secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi Monday alleged that the Uttar Pradesh government was creating hurdles in the centra...More

Agra/New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) The Samajwadi Party is standing at ideological crossroads 17 years after its formation as it prepares for a three-day 'introspection meet' beginning...More

New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) -- the ideological fountainhead of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- Monday said it did not agree with the views o...More

Kolkata, Aug 17 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee cancelled his trip to New Delhi for the internal security conference of chief ministers convened by Prime...More

New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Friday agreed with noted economist Amartya Sen's view that the Left Front governm...More

New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) Over 50 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators from Rajasthan Friday trooped to the home of senior party leader L.K. Advani to express solidarity with f...More

Chennai, Aug 13 (IANS) The unveiling of Kannada poet Sarvajna's statue in Tamil Nadu and that of Tamil saint-poet Thiruvalluvar in Karnataka signals a new chapter in the relations...More

Bhubaneswar, Aug 13 (IANS) Hindu outfits Thursday observed quietly the first death anniversary of Laxmananda Saraswati, who was killed in August last year in Kandhamal district, u...More

Shimla, Aug 13 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Thursday denied that the state government was going slow on the corruption cases registered against Steel M...More

Shimla, Aug 13 (IANS) Noisy scenes were witnessed in the Himachal Pradesh assembly Thursday over Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal's provocative remarks against the opposition Cong...More

Ranchi, Aug 13 (IANS) Seven legislators Thursday lost membership of the Jharkhand assembly under the anti-defection law. Speaker Aalamgir Aalam finally p...More

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Forward Bloc Thursday alleged that the Trinamool Congress ministers at the centre were instigating violence a...More

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) When Manmohan Singh speaks from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day Saturday, he will become the fourth prime minister to address the nation ...More

Chennai, Aug 13 (IANS) Campaigning by political parties for by-elections in five assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu is in full swing. By-polls are bei...More

Madan Lal Dhingra was perhaps the first Indian freedom fighter to be executed on British soil. He died in London on Aug 17, 1909. It is strange that no one in the Indian governmen...More