The Taliban today denied shooting dead Indian writer Sushmita Banerjee, whose murder Afghan officials blamed on the insurgent militia fighting against the government for 12 years.

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Constitutional Amendment Bill which seeks to pave way for the creation of a Judicial Appointments Commission to replace the present collegium system to appoint j

A Russian warship carrying "special cargo" will be dispatched toward Syria, a navy source said today, as the
Kremlin beefs up its presence in the region ahead of possible US strikes against the Damascus regime.

The BJP, which supported the Congress in pushing through the key legislations which include Food Security, Land and Pension Bills, was virtually constrained to do as the party did not want to be proje

Eleven children today fell ill after they were administered deworming medicine under a state government's health scheme at Sultanpur village in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur district, officials said.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has questioned why the Uttarakhand government has allowed sand mining to take place in calamity-ridden areas.

After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s efforts to resolve the stand-off between the government and main Opposition failed, it was finally resolved on Wednesday after two rounds of meeting between gover

Demanding that the Congress led UPA should reveal why the Prime Minister is not being questioned and an FIR not lodged on the “stolen” coal block allocation files, the main opposition BJP on Wednesday

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed repeated adjournments over missing coal-block allocation files with the BJP creating a ruckus accusing the government of a cover up and targeted the Prime Minist

India has handed over a cheque of $1 million to Burma for development products in its conflict-ridden Rakhine state where there have been frequent clashes between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingyya Musli