Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that his decision to shed political authority and hand over powers to an elected political leadership stemmed from a commitment to democracy.

Veteran Singaporean political leader George Yeo, who is a mentor of Nalanda University being re-built in Bihar, on Tuesday announced his retirement from politics after 23 years of public life.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama tonight discussed over phone the American operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in Pakistan and the situation in the region.

Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday blamed the Congress for the dissolution of the board of directors of the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank.

Jangalmahal, the war-zone of the Maoists and the Marxist party, will go to polls on May 10, raising a big question.

A special conference of the Maoists, active in the tribal areas in the Kerala, was held at a secret location in Chhattisgarh from April 20 to 25.

Invoking Tagore’s name may have meant yet another way of reaching out to the voters in West Bengal by Union railway minister and Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee.

BJP parliamentary party chairman L.K.

The latest inputs with the Central intelligence agencies suggest that nearly 80 hard-core militants of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) are waiting to cross the international border

With the UPA government having to deal with several high-profile and controversial cases like 2G spectrum allocation scam, Commonwealth Games scam and black money case, which may have a direct bearing