After a sustained attack on the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh over the past three days, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday trained his guns on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh now have a problem with the statues of UP chief minister Mayawati and the elephant (BSP symbol) installed in various parks and memorials in Lucknow and Noida.

The Samajwadi Party, which had lost the 2007 Assembly elections mainly because of its patronage to criminals and anti-social elements, has again given tickets for the upcoming Assembly elections to people facing serious criminal charges.

Pakistan on Thursday said its relations with the US, marked by “many ups and downs” this year, had reached a point where it had become necessary to “rewrite” the bilateral terms of engagement in order to bring ties on an even keel.

Bringing an end to a six-month-long legal battle, a Russian court on Wednesday rejected a ban on a translated version of the Bhagavad Gita, a verdict welcomed by the Indian government as a “sensible resolution of a sensitive issue”.

Anna Hazare and his organisation, India Against Corruption, has made it into the American spy agency CIA’s World Factbook as a political pressure group in India, joining the league of the RSS, Bajrang

His watch stopped on June 11, 1991. After spending two decades in jail, Perarivalan — one of the death-row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case — found 2011 was a rollercoaster ride. This year he almost walked to the gallows and was saved only by a series of interventions.

As many as six persons have succumbed to a mysterious disease in Bageshwari village in Bihar’s Munger district since late Tuesday night, according to a district medical official.

A woman here died of infection caused by a bundle of cotton gauze mistakenly left in her stomach during a family planning surgery, allegedly conducted by an ENT specialist in a government hospital in a Chhattisgarh district nearly three weeks ago, officials said on Wednesday.

Indian Navy is set to receive a major boost when the much-awaited Russian Nerpa nuclear attack submarine would join its fleet “in the next few days” on a 10-year lease worth $920 million.