The Congress on Friday launched "Quest for Equity" website on the occasion of Dr B.R. Ambedkar on his 126th birth anniversary. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Good Friday has remembered the service and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. ....

Life returned to normal on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir after train services and internet facilities were restored in the valley. ....

Tamil Nadu welcomed "Heyvilambi"- the Tamil New Year - on Friday with traditional fervour with people visiting temples and wearing new clothes. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tribute to Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar, principal architect of the Indian Constitution, on his 126th birth anniversary. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that modern India can progress only if women are empowered, and that whenever given a chance, women have outperformed men. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the BHIM-Aadhaar digital payments platform to boost the digital payments revolution on the occasion of the 126th birth anniversary of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, here on Friday. ....

In a renewed confrontation with the Supreme Court, Calcutta High Court judge Justice C.S. Karnan on Thursday passed a "judicial order" against seven Supreme Court judges, including Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, for "violating" the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and directed them to "appear" before him on April 28. ....

India said on Thursday that it is engaged in efforts to bring back an alleged Indian spy sentenced to death in Pakistan, who it reiterated is innocent of the charges hurled at him. ....

A special court here on Thursday issued a non-bailable warrant for arrest against controversial preacher and televangelist Zakir Naik after he failed to appear before the Enforcement Directorate despite four summons issued to him. ....

India said on Thursday that the alleged Indian spy sentenced to death in Pakistan was innocent of the charges hurled at him. ....

President Pranab Mukherjee will lay the foundation stone of B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics in Bengaluru during his two-day visit to Karnataka and Maharashtra on April 14 and 15, an official statement said. ....

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre and the Election Commission on a plea by the BSP that EVMs should be used in polls along with the Voter Verifiable Paper Trail (VVPAT) as directed by the apex court in 2013. ....

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday conferred the Padma awards at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. ....

It would take Rs 42.02 crore and a decade for the ecological rehabilitation of the Yamuna floodplains from adverse damages caused by the Art of Living's (AoL) World Culture Festival, says the report of an expert committee. ....

The ruling Congress in Karnataka is leading over the rival BJP in the twin by-elections to the state assembly from Nanjangud (SC) and Gundlupet segments where the counting of votes was in progress on Thursday, said an official. ....

The BJP, continuing with its victory streak, on Thursday won five out of 10 assembly by-elections across eight states, including Delhi, with the Congress getting solace from Karnataka where it retained two seats and held on to another in Madhya Pradesh. ....

Only 702 of the 35,169 voters voted on Thursday in the Srinagar-Budgam Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir. ....

Amid criticism from various quarters over the funcioning of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the Election Commission plans to throw an open challenge to people in May to try to hack EVMs, an official source said on Wednesday. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed regret that despite consensus among all parties, a constitutional amendment bill to accord a constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes could not be passed in the Rajya Sabha. ....