A local court here has allowed rights activist Binayak Sen to visit South Korea to receive an award later in May.
Additional sessions judge B.P. Verma has allowed Sen to go to Korea between May 15 and 20 and released his passport, sources in the court said.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that his decision to shed political authority and hand over powers to an elected political leadership stemmed from a commitment to democracy.

Veteran Singaporean political leader George Yeo, who is a mentor of Nalanda University being re-built in Bihar, on Tuesday announced his retirement from politics after 23 years of public life.

The current mood in the AICC is to renominate Pradesh Congress chiefs, a strategy reflected in major states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal and Delhi.

With its eye on the Uttarakhand Assembly polls slated for next year and in a bid to keep growing dissidence at bay, former chief minister Bhagat Singh Koshiyari and now Rajya Sabha MP is likely to be

Details of the assets and wealth of Rajya Sabha members shall not be placed in the public domain, the Ethics Committee of the Upper House has ruled.

Amid reservations of Muslim organisations on the proposed amendment to the Central Waqf Act, minorities affairs minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday said the government by proposing the bill, is trying

Two Punjab BJP ministers were today questioned by the CBI in connection with a graft case in which chief parliamentary secretary (CPS), finance, Raj Khurana has been arrested.

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to bowl against Chennai Super Kings in their Indian Premier League match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here on Monday.

Dr. A. Lakshmana Murthy,whose son A. Nitin Kumar Reddy (24), a final year student of M.