The deathly silence brooding over Kedarnath since the June calamity hit Uttarakhand broke early this morning by the chanting of Vedic hymns as prayers resumed at the Himalayan shrine, 86 days after ravaging floods left over 400 people dead in the Kedar valley.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Tuesday said that Rahul Gandhi should be projected as the prime ministerial candidate of the party to counter the BJP in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The water of the spring at the sacred Hindu shrine of Khirbhawani outside Srinagar has turned red, the phenomenon witnessed after more than half a century is being seen by the priests as a “bad omen.”

India will host the 2015 edition of the Saff tournament, it was decided in the executive committee meeting of the South Asian body here on Tuesday.

A Delhi court on Tuesday delivered the much-awaited verdict in the horrific gangrape-murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student inside a moving bus in December last year, that shook the entire country, prompting large-scale protests and outrage across India.

Curfew was relaxed in Muzaffarnagar for two hours on Tuesday evening and the day remained largely incident-free but security has been beefed up in Bareilly district following reports of communal tension.

The Supreme Court has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to a man for killing his wife and two sons, saying he had killed his family on account of abject poverty and is not a danger to society.

The verdict evoked strong reactions across the political spectrum. Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj demanded the death sentence for all the accused. Congress leader Ambika Soni also sought the most stringent punishment for the convicts.

Expressing deep anguish over the loss of lives in the recent communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar in UP, PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday announced `2 lakhs each for the next of kin of those killed and `50,0

Out-of-favour players Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan and Gautam Gambhir were on Tuesday handed a lifeline for staging a comeback to the national team as they were included in the India A squad for two four-day games against visiting West Indies A next month.