Congress vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday began his 2-day Gujarat tour as part of the Lok Sabha election preparations, by visiting Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram here.

Amidst growing speculation in the political circle of a possible BJP-TDP alliance, TDP chief N.

A cargo truck crashed into 2 minivans packed with laborers headed to work early Thursday in northeast India, killing 30 people, including 13 children, police said.

Mr Pranab Mukherjee may have moved from the hurly-burly of active politics to becoming the country’s 13th President.

At least 92 people drowned and around 200 were believed missing after a boat carrying up to 500 African asylum seekers caught fire and sank off the Italian coast on Thursday, officials said.

Despite attorney-general G.E.

Provincial officials say 2 separate roadside bomb attacks have killed 5 Afghan civilians in the eastern and southern parts of the country.

The ordinance of discontent, which some think can destabilise the UPA-2 government, was shred to bits by Rahul Gandhi on the lawns of the Press Club of India here on Friday afternoon, leaving assemble

A one-month extension has been given by the Jammu and Kashmir government to the one-man commission probing Kishtwar communal clashes which left three persons dead and dozens others injured last month.

The government and majority of political parties were guarded in their response to the Supreme Court verdict holding that citizens have the right to reject candidates contesting polls.