The Gujarat High Court on Thursday rejected the plea of Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain former MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging a clean chit by the Special Investigation Team to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other top officials in the 2002 Gujarat riots. ....

Air force chief Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa on Thursday said India is prepared to counter any threat from China and was also ready to face a two-front war. ....

Jailed Dera sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's close aide Honeypreet Insan was on Wednesday sent to six days police remand by a court in Panchkula. ....

Appearing before a sessions court in Ahmedabad as Maya Kodnani's witness in 2002 Naroda Gam riots case on Monday, BJP president Amit Shah said that Kodnani was not present in Naroda Gam on the day the riots broke out. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river on Sunday, saying no other project in the world has faced so many hurdles as this "engineering miracle" which many people had "conspired to stop". ....

The Smart City initiative of the Government of India is one of the first of its kind in the country’s history. ....

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. ....