Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday pitched for Vice President Hamid Ansari for the post of Indian President.

"Vice President Ansari should be made the president," Lalu Prasad tol

Two of the three mediators named by Maoists to negotiate the release of Chhattisgarh district collector Alex Paul Menon have refused to join talks. While lawyer Prashant Bhushan said he could not medi

Amid a shaky truce and presence of UN monitors, Syria is bracing to hold its first multi-party parliamentary elections in five years next month that hopes to provide space for a nascent political oppo

Indian equities markets closed lower on Monday with a benchmark index falling 277.16 points. Realty, banking and telecom stocks were among the worst losers.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of t

A middle-aged woman, who was gangraped and beaten up by her assaulters, died in a hospital in Jharkhand capital on Monday, police said.

According to police, the woman took an auto-rickshaw on Sunday

Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Monday resigned as party spokesperson and chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on law and justice in the wake of a controversial CD that allegedly feat

A man in Russia, proclaiming to be ‘God’, set himself ablaze and landed in hospital in a critical condition with 70 per cent burns, RIA Novosti reported.

A member of the Jehovah's Witnesses sect, the

She was married off when she was only an infant yet, but coming of age the 16-year-old Rajasthani girl now wants that marriage annulled and freedom of choice to be educated and working restored to her

Jailed former communications minister Andimuthu Raja is not very keen on getting out on bail because he would prefer to walk out of prison with “clean hands” in the 2G spectrum allotment controversy t

Office boredom rather than sparks of passion drives men to flirt with female colleagues, says a Surrey University study based on a survey of 200 people.