India

On a tour of his parliamentary constituency on Wednesday, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had his vehicle intercepted by an unexpected quarter - two girls who came all the way from Lucknow to narrate their woes to the Congress leader. ...

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has once again aired his differences with Home Minister P Chidambaram in public. After Opposition attacked Chidambaram for his 'saffron terror' remarks, Digvijaya Singh has said that the word should not have been used. "I ...

The deadline set by the Maoists for the release of their jailed comrades in exchange for the four cops kidnapped from Bihar's Lakhisarai district ends at 10 am today. The Naxals extended the deadline after the 4 pm deadline on ...

US President Barack Obama, who is visiting India in November, will address the joint session of Parliament on November 9. The Winter session of Parliament is expected to start on November 8, a day before the US President is likely ...

The groaning, clattering machines never stop, transforming 12 tonnes of whole wheat flour every day into nearly a quarter-million discs of flatbread called roti. These purpose-built contraptions, each 20 feet long, extrude the dough, roll it flat, then send it ...

Public sector bank employees will go on a nation-wide strike on September 7 to protest the issue of new bank licences to private sector banks. "Around 10 lakh bank employee from 27 public sector banks, 18 foreign banks, 26 private, ...

Top Maoist leader a key suspect in the Gyaneshwari Express train disaster, Umakanto Mahato, has been killed by joint forces in West Bengal's Jhargram district. Mahato was killed in an overnight encounter at Mohanpur forest, about 30 km from Jhargram. ...

In a significant move, government has agreed to a proposal to introduce Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) in place of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination. "The Government has approved the proposal for introduction of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) in place ...