After Ganesh Chaturthi, Navratri and Dussehra, the Hindu festival calendar will be culminating with Diwali on November 5.

Former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday stated that the Congress will move a privilege motion against Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and the then finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal for misleading the House.

As many as 34 women leaders belonging to different castes and communities have become AICC members from Uttar Pradesh. Their empowerment could certainly pose a threat to the BSP led by chief minister Mayawati.

Cash worth `6.44 lakhs was recovered on Thursday from the hotel room of Congress party’s central leader Sagar Raika and Bihar Youth Congress president Lallan Kumar in Begusarai by the police who suspected the money was meant for distribution among voters to unfairly influence them.

The BJP high command cautioned the Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj from making “unnecessary remarks.” Ms Swaraj was ticked off by party leadership for her remarks that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s “magic does not work everywhere” when she was asked whether Mr Modi will campaign for the Bihar Assembly polls.

India’s two leading ladies in politics, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati of the BSP, on Thursday took on Bihar’s ruling JD(U)-BJP alliance and its greatest opponent, the RJD-LJP combine, in passionate campaign speeches heard by thousands of voters.

Russian psychological drama set in a meteorological station in the Arctic Circle, How I Ended This Summer, has been awarded the best film award at the London Film Festival.

The Centre on Thursday took a decision not to file any case against hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and writer-activist Arundhati Roy for purportedly delivering “hate speeche

A dismissed BSF constable walked down the Rajpath here on Wednesday afternoon with his three children, all without a thread on their bodies, in protest against the alleged mistreatment meted out to him in service.

An unidentified man was killed on the Bus Rapid Transit corridor near Ambedkar Nagar, southeast Delhi on Thursday evening after being hit by a speeding bus.
The police said the accident took place on BRT corridor at around 9.30 pm on Thursday. A police control room (PCR) call was made by a pedestrian who told the cops that a bus had crushed a man.