Warning against demilitarisation in Jammu and Kashmir, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for governor's rule in the state even as Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mufti Sayeed and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were due to discuss... More

A decade after low profile leaders H.D. Deve Gowda and I.K. Gujral found themselves catapulted as prime ministers to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) out of power, the sons of both have manoeuvred themselves into coveted positions with the... More

General elections in Bangladesh, called off in January amid political turmoil, may take place only in end-2008 or early 2009. The reconstituted Election Commission (EC) indicated this in an announcement, saying it would first issue national... More

The Supreme Court Thursday declined to review its 2002 judgment permitting a trial against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani and seven others in the Babri Masjid demolition case to proceed in a Rae Bareli court. A three-judge... More

Members of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly Thursday voted to elect 31 members to the legislative council, which is being revived after a gap of two decades. The polling, which began at 9 a.m., will continue the whole day. The results are... More

The Congress has its Gandhi stars, the Samajwadi Party the Bachchan family and the BJP its Dharmendras and Hema Malinis, not to mention political bigwigs like L.K. Advani. But the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is banking only on chief Mayawati to bring... More

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said water should not be an issue for conflict and chaos between nations or within countries and called for a people's movement for its conservation. "We cannot allow human societies to descend into chaos... More

The Election Commission has directed the seven states surrounding Uttar Pradesh to seal their borders ahead of the seven-phased assembly elections in the state. Disclosing this, Uttar Pradesh Chief Election Officer Anuj Bishnoi said here Thursday... More

Attacks on the Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) premises are continuing in the aftermath of the Nandigram killings with some miscreants damaging a party office in Murshidabad district. The hand of Maoist guerrillas is suspected in... More

The Patna High Court Thursday issued notice to Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi in connection with their acquittal in a 1998 corruption case of amassing wealth disproportionate to their income. The court was hearing the Bihar... More