Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday rebuked Assam’s director-general of police Jayanta Narayan Choudhury over his insensitive remark that the police was not “like an ATM machine” that could respond to a crime scene the moment someone inserted a card, saying no one should be allowed to make light of incidents like the stripping and molesting of a young woman on a busy Guwahati street, video clips of which have gone viral and horrified the nation.

Three Air Force personnel were killed and four persons, including a woman, were injured on Sunday morning when an overspeeding Skoda car rammed into a Maruti van on Rajpath.

Prime Minister Manm-ohan Singh’s historic September 6-7 visit to Bangladesh will focus on resolving the prolonged land border dispute between the two nations, when two sides will sign a landmark compr

The BJP on Monday launched an all-out campaign demanding the immediate recall of Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj, who on Sunday had sent a “special report” to the Centre recommending dismissal of the B.S. Yeddyurappa government and imposition of President’s Rule in the state.

Slamming Kerala chief minister V.S. Achutanandan for his “tongue-in-cheek” remarks against AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the Congress on Monday said, the CM has insulted the youth of the country.

The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), led by the former Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, has formed an alliance of six minor parties to form a Secular Democratic Front, and will put up candidates in all the

The ruling Left Democratic Front in Kerala on Monday finalised the seat-sharing exercise among its constituents for all 140 assembly segments for the April 13 polls with lead partner CPI(M) getting the lion’s share of 93.

It was an innocent mistake, but one which caused external affairs minister S.M. Krishna embarrassment. Addressing the UN Security Council in New York on Friday, the minister inadvertently began reading from the wrong text and realised his error only after a few minutes into his speech.

India-baiting Paki-stan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was not part of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s smaller 22-member Cabinet which was sworn in here on Friday evening. It is, however, possible that he could rejoin the government when a second lot of ministers take the oath. India will therefore have to wait a few days longer to see who will head the Pakistani delegation at the foreign minister-level talks due in New Delhi in July.