New Delhi, Sep 16 Former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has been detained under Jammu and Kashmir’s stringent Public Safety Law that gives the administration the right to detain a person without trial for two years. An order by the State Government said the former Chief Minister’s residence will be treated as a temporary jail...

New Delhi, Sep 16 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir amidst reports of around 230 terrorists waiting at terror launch pads in Pakistan occupied Kashmir to enter the country, officials said...

New Delhi, Sep 16 Even as he thanked his well-wishers for the birthday greetings from Tihar Jail, former Union minister P Chidambaram on Monday expressed concerns over the economic slowdown, saying “may God bless this country”...

New Delhi, Sep 16 United States space agency NASA's lunar probe will fly over the landing site of Chandryaan-2's Vikram Lander on the Moon on Tuesday, September 17. New information regarding the condition of the lander is expected from this expedition...

A law student who has accused the BJP's Chinmayanand of rape and blackmail spent five hours at a court in Uttar Pradesh today as she gave her statement. The 23-year-old was escorted by more than 50 policemen and woman cops..

Sep 15: The 23-year-old woman who has accused Swami Chinmayanand of raping and sexually harassing her for over a year says she has at least 35 incriminating videos of the former BJP MP. Speaking to The Sunday Express..

Varanasi, Sep 15: Over 50 students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) are continuing a sit-in protest demanding the sacking of a professor who allegedly made obscene gestures and vulgar comments during an academic trip to Odisha last year. ..

Hyderabad, Sep 15: Five people were killed when a boat with 62 including crew members, capsized in the Godavari river near Devipatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday afternoon, officials said. ..

New Delhi, Sep 14: Home Minister Amit Shah’s appeal on Saturday to increase use of Hindi that he underscored has the potential to unify the country sparked off a row with opposition leaders from southern India speaking ..

New Delhi, Sep 14: The Centre has withdrawn 10,000 paramilitary personnel deployed in Assam before the publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), officials said on Saturday..

New Delhi, Sep 14: Among the key changes in the recently-announced Parliamentary panels, in which Congress lost the chairmanship of crucial finance and external affairs committees, is former PM Manmohan Singh opting out ..

Jammu, Sep 14: With no let up in ceasefire violations, Pakistan on Saturday resorted to heavy fire and shot mortars on Indian posts and forward villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Balakote, Mankote and Mendhar sectors..

NEW DELHI, Sep 13 Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Friday met party leaders from North Eastern States and discussed with them a wide range of issues, including the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and problems faced by the people of the region. ..

New Delhi, Sep 13: Restrictions on movement have been lifted from entire Jammu and Kashmir and landline phones restored, 39 days after the state was put under a security and communication lockdown on August 5..

Bareilly, Sep 13: After a case of buffalo theft, now Samajwadi Party lawmaker Mohd Azam Khan has been booked for stealing goats by Rampur police. A case against Khan and seven others, including chairman of both Sunni and Shia..

Mumbai, Sep 13: The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to quash the case lodged against civil liberties activist Gautam Navlakha in the Koregaon-Bhima violence and for having alleged Maoist links, noting that there was prima facie substance in the case...

Kolkata, Sep 12: Lalu Alam, the key accused in a case of attempt to murder on Mamata Banerjee more than 29 years ago, when she was the president of Youth Congress in Bengal, was acquitted by a court on Thursday...

New Delhi, Sep 12: The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought a status report from the Criminal Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on a plea filed by former union minister P Chidambaram, who is currently in Tihar jail..

Jammu, Sep 12: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday foiled a major terror plot with the recovery in Lakhanpur area of Kathua district of a consignment of arms and ammunition from a Kashmir-bound truck...

New Delhi, Sep 12: Days after Rajeev Dhavan filed a contempt plea in the Supreme Court over alleged threats he received for representing the Muslim parties in the Ayodhya dispute, the senior advocate Thursday ..

Mathura, Sep 11: Terrorism has become a “global threat” and this “ideology” is deeply rooted and flourishing in Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today, recalling the horrific 9/11 twin tower terror attack in the US...

New Delhi, Sep 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura on Wednesday to launch several programmes in a bid to boost the ailing agricultural sector. He launched the National Animal Disease Control ..

New Delhi, Sep 11: Former union minister P Chidambaram Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court for bail in the INX Media case. His counsel also challenged the trial court order remanding him to 14 days judicial custody in the case till September 19...

New Delhi, Sep 11: Trial proceedings in the Unnao rape case began on Wednesday inside the AIIMS trauma centre, with the victim recording her statement before District Judge Dharmesh Sharma. The Delhi High Cour..

New Delhi, Sep 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated Asia’s first cross-border petroleum pipeline, between India and Nepal. He said the Motihari-Amlekhganj pipeline is a symbol of the close ties between the two countries...

New Delhi, Sep 10: The Indian Space Research Organisation, or Isro, is making all possible efforts to establish communication with Vikram lander that has been lying on the moon for three days now, the space agency tweeted on Tuesday...

Leh, Sep 10: Keen to shrug off its “war zone” tag, around 500 families in Kargil are looking to the Centre to pump funds and promote the region as a tourist destination internationally after the move to accord it Union Territory status...

New Delhi, Sep 10: It is essential to hold elections for most leadership posts in the Congress, including for the working committee membership, senior leader Shashi Tharoor has said, confident that the party, under interim chief Sonia Gandhi, will soon work towards that end...

New Delhi, Sep 9 Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said the Government intended to expel all illegal immigrants not just from Assam but the entire country even as he assailed the Congress for alienating the North East from the rest of the Nation...

Sep 9: Lt General S K Saini, GOC-in-C, Army Southern Command on Monday said that Indian Army have got inputs that terrorists are planning to carry out some attacks in Southern part of India. Lt General Saini added that security ..

New Delhi, Sep 9 India received a sharp nudge from chief of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday as severe restrictions imposed on Kashmir entered their sixth week...

The RSS on Monday said there are "some errors" in the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam and the government should remove those before moving forward, but asserted that the exercise is a welcome step...

New Delhi, Sep 8 : North East Festival returned to the capital with its 7th edition and will be held between November 8-10 at IGNCA, Janpath, New Delhi. ..

New Delhi, Sep 8: Supreme Court Justice Deepak Gupta has come down heavily on the law of sedition in India, saying it is “misused” since the conviction rate in such cases is very low, and merits a re-look...

New Delhi, Sep 8: One of India’s most famous lawyers and former Union law minister Ram Jethmalani passed away early Sunday morning in New Delhi, six days short of his 96th birthday. He is survived by his son..