India’s first bullet train dream will soon be a reality with Prime Minister Narendra Modiand his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe laying the foundation stone for the ambitious project today ....

Nirmala Sitharaman was named India's Defence Minister in a reshuffle-cum-expansion of the Union Cabinet by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 3 September. Piyush Goyal was awarded charge of the Indian Railways. ....

Opposition parties on Wednesday slammed the government over the note ban ....

Incessant rain in Mumbai over the last two days has brought back memories of the record-breaking July 26, 2005, downpour that had paralysed the city. ....

Lt Col Purohit had moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court's order dismissing his bail plea. During the August 17 hearing, senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Lt Col Purohit, had said that he has been in jail for the past nine years, but charges have still not been framed against him. ....

Railways accidents become continuing story in three years of NDA Government. Suresh Prabhu seems to be making the same mistakes as his predecessors. ....

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has condoled the loss of lives in the derailment of the Puri-Haridwar Kalinga Utkal Express at Khatauli near Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. ....

It was the month of March in the Y2K (Year 2000) when the then first time Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar paved the way for Rabri Devi to form government after he left the Assembly just before the floor test for confidence motion. ....

India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj landed here on Thursday to attend the 15th BIMSTEC Ministerial Summit to be held this evening. ....

The AIADMK faction led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Thursday declared as null and void the appointment as party Deputy General Secretary of T.T.V. Dinakaran, nephew of the now jailed General Secretary V.K. Sasikala. ....

The National Investigation Agency officials on Tuesday questioned Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani's sons, Naeem and Naseem, as part of its probe into a money trail to expose how Pakistan sent cash to separatists for stoking unrest in the Kashmir Valley. ....

In a stinging attack on Rahul Gandhi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday accused him of breaching security protocol inside and outside the country and wondered if he doesn’t take the elite SPG on foreign trips to “hide” something. ....

Facing the toughest electoral battle of his career, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel scrounged for every vote as polling for three Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat progressed on Tuesday. BJP President Amit Shah and union minister Smriti Irani appeared set for an easy win. ....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea to make yoga compulsory in schools from class 1 to 8 across the country. ....

The election to three Rajya Sabha seats from Gujarat has turned into a high-stake battle. Where BJP has fielded party chief Amit Shah, Union minister Smriti Irani and Balwantsinh Rajput for the three seats in Gujarat, Congress leader Ahmed Patel is contesting against Rajput. ....

The 44 Gujarat Congress MLAs who were shifted to a resort on the outskirts of the city nine days ago fearing poaching by the BJP ahead of tomorrow's Rajya Sabha election, returned Ahmedabad in an early morning flight from Bengaluru, today. ....

The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday arrested Muhammad Aslam Wani, an aide to senior separatist leader Shabir Shah, on charges of funding terrorist activities in the Kashmir Valley. ....

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday visited the family of an RSS activist who was murdered by suspected CPI-M workers in Kerala and called it a 'most brutal killing'. ....

The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day following a spat between BJP and Congress members after a BJP member made hawala allegations against the Congress. ....

A court in Delhi extended NIA custody by 10 days of four Kashmiri separatists arrested on charges of receiving funds from Pakistan to sponsor terror activities and stone-pelting in Kashmir. ....