Reacting to the BSP’s proposal to divide Uttar Pradesh UP into four smaller states, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Thursday said that the division of states should never be done in haste.

In the land of Lord Ram, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday promised to bring in Ram Rajya in Uttar Pradesh. Ayodhya, that wore a bright saffron hue with marigold strings, also reverberated with cries of “Jai Shri Ram” after a considerable gap.

The CPI’s Gurudas Dasgupta wants the Winter Session of Parliament to be extended fearing that government business — 31 bills for passage — may find it difficult as the session has only 17 sittings.

The government’s much-hyped Unique Identification Number project may run into rough weather with the security agencies raising strong objections to the biometric database being collected by the UID Authority, saying neither the data

Stepping up pressure on Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has shot off a 14-page letter to her, giving details of irregularities in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National

Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s notebook of Bengali poems and songs, which he had gifted to a close family friend in 1930s, has been put on sale by a descendant of that family in New York.

The first meeting of the reconstituted Press Council of India held Thursday was a stormy affair, with four publisher members representing the Indian Newspaper

The Supreme Court on Thursday raised serious questions on the governance deficit, saying things had come to an “unfortunate” pass that the court had to issue contempt threats to states to implement even the Prime Minister’s directions to them on important issues.

India heads into an East Asia-Asean summit faced with the challenge posed by changing dynamics within the grouping, as the United States marks its formal entry into the process for the first time and the shadow cast by China’s

The city government on Thursday assured the Delhi high court that it will provide within four weeks all infrastructure, including office space and staff to the committee set up to ascertain the legality of a 2009 notification allowing private schools to hike tuition fees.