Such is the all-consuming need for Assembly poll tickets among some politicians in Bihar that they would not join a party without getting its tickets to contest elections!

Pakistan chef de mission, S.M.

Karnataka’s dissident BJP MLAs on Friday seemed to have backed out of a reconciliation indicated on Thursday with the state BJP.

In a bid to eliminate even the remotest possibility of the man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing Pratibha Srikanta-murthy being freed, a lower court in Bengaluru on Friday sentenced cab driv

Union law and justice minister M. Veerappa Moily on Friday said he was upset by the delay in the delivery of verdict in the Pratibha Murthy rape and murder case.

The government is planning to set up another agency on the lines of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) which will, along with private companies, build roads in Naxal-affected areas.

The Madras high court on Friday set aside the appointment of senior IPS woman officer Letika Saran as DGP of Tamil Nadu state, head of the police force.

The Mumbai police and their anti-terror mechanisms were on high alert on Friday after an email was received by the Bombay Stock Exchange that threatened to carry out a terror attack on their building

A gem-encrusted gold finial from the Tiger of Mysore’s octagonal golden throne was auctioned by Bonhams on Thursday in London for £434,400.

A SET of 24 paintings, which depict Tipu Sultan’s victory over the British at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780, were sold by Sotheby’s in London for £769,250, including buyer’s premium, on Wednesday.