Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Monday opposed a demand by opposition leader Oommen Chandy that a case be registered against communist leader Pinnarayi Vijayan, who was held with live cartridges in his baggage at Chennai airport last... More

The Bihar government Monday filed a petition in the court challenging the acquittal of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi in a 1998 case of amassing wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income. The Nitish Kumar... More

The Supreme Court Monday asked the government if it is advisable to empower the president and the state governors with the discretion to refuse administering the oath of office to a person with criminal and dubious antecedents for appointment as... More

The Congress was gleeful while the Shiv Sena said "good riddance" after former minister Subodh Mohite swapped his saffron mantle for a tri-colour one. The crossover Sunday was certainly a shot in the arm for the Congress, smarting under... More

A man carrying a pistol and two live cartridges was nabbed by the police Sunday hours before Congress president Sonia Gandhi was to address an election rally at Almora in Uttarakhand. Kedar Singh Martolia, 45, who is a post office clerk in... More

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday finalised a draft of its self-rule doctrine for a permanent solution to the two parts of Jammu and Kashmir divided by the line of control between India and Pakistan. The party finalised the self-rule... More

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Jharkhand has asked the Madhu Koda-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to prove its majority on the floor of the house before the budget session. Demanding that the UPA government has been... More

Bihar's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Sadhu Yadav, brother-in-law of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, has been charged with grabbing prime land along with three others, police said Sunday. The complaint against Yadav was made by one Bhuwaneswar... More

Talks late Friday night in the government on the possibility of imposing president's rule in Uttar Pradesh were inconclusive, said Congress sources here. The talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and... More

While Kerala's Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) secretary Pinarayi Vijayan was Friday held by security personnel at the Chennai airport with five live .38 rifle cartridges in his bag, the ammunition seems to have escaped the eyes of the... More