Union Home Minister P Chidambaram quips he could have shined better as a tennis player than as a politician and that 'perhaps I have chosen a wrong path'.

"I used to play tennis during my days in co

Angela Merkel's hand-picked choice for the ceremonial post of president resigned on Friday in a scandal over political favours, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro zone cr

Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Friday deferred his plans to expand the cabinet till the completion of the Udupi-Chikmaglur Lok Sabha byelection slated for next month.

"We will expand

Two months after the death of Kim Jong Il, North Koreans commemorated what would have been his 70th birthday on Thursday with the flowers that bear his name, along with songs and art praising him as a

The city's legendary dabbawallas (lunch-box carriers) have now decided to join politics, starting with the forthcoming elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), an official said here

Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Tuesday cancelled his proposed visit to Amethi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, as part of his ongoing anti-corruption yatra in Uttar

Politics is all about being in the present, unlike sports in which planning for the future was possible, writer-politician Shashi Tharoor, the Lok Sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram, says.

'As a Lo

Aurangabad, Maharashtra: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that political parties lack democracy but urged the youth to join politics through the Congress.

"Political parties l

Nov 27: The US has warned India and other key governments across the world about a new potentially embarrassing release of classified documents by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks which may harm

Nov 27: Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy today held another round of parleys with MLAs and other leaders supporting him on their course of action in the event of his suspension from the party amidst