In a poke at the political hot potato of Bihar’s strong demand for special category status for the state, adviser to the Prime Minister on pubic information infrastructure and innovations Sam Pitroda

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav’s dream project — a lion safari in Etawah — is now being revived by the Akhilesh Yadav government.

Communist Party of India (CPI) veteran and former two-term MP from Andhra Pradesh Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, 70, was on Saturday named the party’s new general secretary, replacing A.B.

Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh has asked UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to recommend a CBI inquiry into bungling in MNREGA funds in three districts — Gonda, Balrampur and Sonebha

Weddings are usually a once-in-a-lifetime event but for Tej Narain Pandey, the newly-elected Samajwadi Party MLA, it will be an action replay of his wedding that took place in January this year.

China rejected President Barack Obama’s decision to move forward with plans for sanctions on countries buying oil from Iran, saying on Saturday that Washington had no right to unilaterally punish othe

Burma was making final preparations on Saturday for polls seen as a test of the military-dominated regime’s reforms, in which Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is standing for the first time.

In a bizarre and frightening turn of events, three motorcycle borne youths went on a stabbing spree in the trans-Gomti area of the Lucknow on Friday night, leaving five persons seriously injured.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday voiced displeasure over the April 16 meeting called by the Centre to discuss the NCTC issue, fearing its importance may get diluted due to other items on the agenda.

The Opposition Left Front on Thursday created an uproar in the House against the state government circular specifying only a few newspapers for subscription by state, state-sponsored and state-aided libraries, before staging a walkout. A delegation of the Left Front Legislature Party also called on governor M.K. Narayanan in the afternoon over the issue.