Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to have a one-to-one meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington in September during a six-day visit to the United States, when he will also attend the UN General Assembly session. Dr Singh is expected to arrive in the US on September 20, but it was officially clarified late on Tuesday night that no dates for his meeting with Mr Obama have been finalised yet.

A day after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had urged party leaders not to stray from the party line, AICC spokesman Meem Afzal on Tuesday termed the BJP a “symbol of terrorism”.

India’s poverty ratio has declined sharply by 15.3 per cent in 2011-12 from 37.2 per cent in 2004-05, when the UPA came to power at the Centre after defeating the NDA.

While BJP president Rajnath Singh is trying to persuade the US government to lift its ban on granting Gujarat CM Narendra Modi a visa, a group of 64 MPs from both Houses has reportedly urged Washingto

Indian-origin Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri’s new book, The Lowland, was on Tuesday “longlisted” for this year’s Booker Prize.

A full-scale media war between the Congress and the BJP will break in the coming days with the Sonia Gandhi-led party deciding to puncture “Team Modi’s” campaign through social media.

The Congress on Tuesday brought in senior leaders C.P. Joshi and Ajay Maken into the party’s high-power election coordination committee headed by Rahul Gandhi for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. With their addition, the number of the six-member committee, set up on November 15, 2012, has gone up to eight.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra introduced a new chapter in Congress politics on Tuesday when they interviewed the aspirants for the posts of city and block presidents of the party.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it is willing to change the judge conducting trial in the fodder scam, on a plea by former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav who is an accused in the case.

With BJP chief Rajnath Singh trying to persuade the US administration to change its stance on banning Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s entry to the US, a group of MPs have reportedly risen against the move.