The question of what India hopes to get in return for pouring billions of dollars in aid into Africa was answered on the concluding day of the second India-Africa summit when the co-chair of the India-Africa Forum issued a ringing endorsement of India’s quest for a permanent seat in an expanded UN Security Council.

CBI on Thursday opposed the bail plea of former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura, an accused in 2G spectrum allocation scam case, saying that instead of following the government's policy, he had followed the policy of the then telecom minister A. Raja.

The BJP top brass has convened a meeting of its seniormost leaders from Uttarakhand, including chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Thursday.

India has conveyed its concern to the United States over the way an Indian diplomat's daughter was arrested in New York.

Refusal to develop a second-rung leadership, inability to focus on local issues and a highly centralised system of working have prevented the Bahujan Samaj Party from spreading its wings in other states.

Expressing serious concern over the recent attack on a Pakistani naval base, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Thursday said India should take serious note of the incident which raises questions whether terrorist elements were trying to make the neighbouring country a 'jihadi state'.

The telecom regulator Trai has ordered telecom operators not to deny the porting request of a mobile subscriber if his previous outstanding bill is less than Rs 10.

In the backdrop of the Left parties’ rout in the recently concluded Assembly elections, the Communist Party of India (CPI) has decided to go for a change in its leadership. The change of guard is all set to be effected in March next year at the party congress.

The military company of outlawed CPI(Maoist) was suspected to be involved in the Monday’s carnage at Amamora in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district, in which nine policemen, including additional-superintendent of police (ASP) Rajesh Pawar, were killed, police sources said here on Wednesday.

Former Union minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief on Wednesday said Ms Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is “there in politics” and takes “centrestage” in party affairs because she has “greater mass appeal”.