In a veiled criticism of the judiciary in the country in the wake of recent Supreme Court observations in which it claimed that the CBI was a “caged parrot”, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on M

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday appointed Jayadev Jena and Sukhdeo Bhagat as Orissa and Jharkhand PCC presidents, respectively.

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Monday ruled out the formation of a third front before the general elections but said that the prospects of a third front emerging after the elections are “br

Taking a lesson from the bitter experience of the multi-crore NRHM scam in UP under the dispensation of former chief minister Mayawati, the Centre will now end the practice of sending funds directly t

Lakhs of students aspiring to pursue medical studies across the country heaved a sigh of relief on Monday as the Supreme Court gave its nod to private and government medical colleges to declare result

The civil aviation ministry has finally initiated the task of “revision” of the list of VIPs/VVIPs who are exempt from pre-embarkation security checks at civil airports across the country, with the mi

Even as the Army is strongly pushing for approval at the earliest by the government to establish a mountain strike corps in the eastern sector to bolster military preparedness vis-à-vis China, Army Ch

About one-third of the world’s population — 2.4 billion people — will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a joint WHO/Unicef report issued on Monday.

Chinese government sources said on Monday that one of the lessons that could be drawn from the recent face-off is that it is “important to resolve things in a timely manner”.

In a dramatic turnaround, India has altered its earlier position and opposed listing of chrysotile asbestos as a hazardous substance at the sixth meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP-6) in Geneva