Germany summoned the Iranian ambassador on Tuesday after his country briefly closed its airspace to chancellor Angela Merkel's plane, foreign minister Guido Westerwelle said.

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti on Tuesday rejected the Centre's appeal of breaking her fast, over the issues related to protection of the Ganga river and conservation of Himalayas.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Sunday assured employment to the Naxals if they give up the path of violence and join the mainstream society.

The CBI probe into the Queen Baton’s Relay case may have hit a hurdle as a London-based businessman, whose firms were engaged in transport and display works during the event, is apparently not coopera

In a bid to ascertain as to how CAG report has quantified a total loss of `1.76 lakh crores to public exchequer on account of spectrum allocation, the joint parliamentary committee, headed by Congres

Internal problems in the BJP are music to the ears of the Congress which sees no threat to the UPA coalition in the next three years despite scams and scandals.

The CPI(M) MLA from Basirhat Uttar in North 24 Parganas, Mostafa Bin Kasem, committed suicide by jumping off the fourth floor of the MLA hostel in central Kolkata on Sunday evening.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who has promised to resolve the Darjeeling issue in three months, would hold a one-to-one meeting with Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) president Bimal Gurung a

Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Jarbom Gamlin on Monday appointed 20 parliamentary secretaries to assist him in the functioning of his government.

Nearly three months after he pledged to give up political leadership of the Tibetans, the Dalai Lama has formally devolved powers to the new elected leaders of the Tibetan exiles.