Unidentified armed assailants brutally killed a 29-year-old woman by slitting her throat with a wire after holding a domestic help hostage at gunpoint and kidnapped her three-year-old son.

The Congress can improve its position in Vidarbha region if it fields the Maharashtra PCC chief Manikrao Thakre for the Lok Sabha elections from Yavatmal-Washim seat.

The Lok Sabha on Saturday passed a bill seeking to provide secretarial staff and other benefits to retired governors throughout their life.

The CBI probe into the coalgate scam has established that the Lohara East coal block in Maharashtra was allocated to a Nagpur-based company, Grace Industries Ltd, in June 2008 without the recommendati

Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday scotched speculation of early elections by claiming that the government will complete its full term and come back to power.

The loss of India’s key frontline conventional diesel-electric submarine INS Sindhurakshak in a devastating explosion on August 14 has severely hit the Indian Navy’s operational capabilities.

A race has begun among states for the `1,000 crore Nirbhaya fund lying unspent with the Centre.

Deep anguish and outrage over the gangrape case of a young photojournalist in Mumbai was expressed in Lok Sabha on Saturday, as members voiced concern that such incidents continue despite laws being m

Following CBI remin-ders, the matter was discussed at a high-level me-eting chaired by the additional secretary (coal) on July 16 at the coal ministry’s office in Shastri Bhavan, sources said.

Batting for the embattled broadcasting sector, information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari on Saturday asked Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to reconsider the issue of imposing th