Washington, Nov 21 (DPA) The US sees the decision by Honduras' disputed de-facto leader Roberto Micheletti to step down during elections as a "positive step," a senior US State Department official said. The ...

Kolkata, Nov 20 (IANS) Noted Bengali singer Kabir Suman, a Trinamool Congress MP, Friday said all issues with the party following his criticism had been resolved and described himself as a ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has strongly condemned Friday's attack by Shiv Sena activists on the offices of IBN-Lokmat network channel in Mumbai and Pune. ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday said that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), its ideological fountainhead, was not interfering in choosing the next party president. BJP leader ...

Mumbai, Nov 20 (IANS) Shiv Sena activists Friday vandalised the offices of the IBN-Lokmat television channel in north-east Mumbai and in Pune and assaulted journalists, to protest the alleged misquoting of ...

Ranchi, Nov 20 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Friday addressed two poll rallies in Jharkhand, appealing for vote for the BJP, which he promised would provide a "stable ...

Kolkata, Nov 20 (IANS) To get more young people to vote, the Election Commission (EC) is planning to issue temporary Electronic Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) to students settled outside their home states. ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday mourned the death of veteran Congress leader and former minister B. Shankaranand, who headed the joint parliamentary probe into the $1.3 ...

Chandigarh, Nov 20 (IANS) The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), the main opposition party in Haryana, Friday demanded a probe into Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) legislators switching sides and supporting the ...

Kolkata, Nov 20 (IANS) The entire electorate in India will be issued the Electronic Photo Identity Card (EPIC) within the next two years, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla said Friday. "We expect the ...

Ranchi, Nov 20 (IANS) The Congress is campaigning hard in Jharkhand for the coming assembly polls, with party chief Sonia Gandhi addressing two rallies in the state Friday and party general ...

Panaji, Nov 20 (IANS) The Congress Friday discussed the issue of banning right-wing Hindu outfit Sanatan Sanstha, some of whose members have been arrested in connection with the Diwali-eve blast in Goa. Speaking ...

Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 20 (IANS) A smiling Priyanka Gandhi drove her elder brother and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to his constituency Amethi after landing at the nearest airport Friday - ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) By-elections to fill assembly vacancies in Andhra Pradesh, Manipur and Tamil Nadu will be held Dec 19, the Election Commission announced Friday. Elections will be held in ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Communist leaders from around the world met here Friday to discuss how to "intensify popular struggles". The 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties is jointly ...

Mumbai, Nov 20 (IANS) Suspected Shiv Sena activists Friday ransacked the offices of the IBN-Lokmat television channel in north-east Mumbai and in Pune and assaulted journalists. Armed with sticks and bats, a ...

Hyderabad, Nov 20 (IANS) In his first attempt to prove that he is a crowd puller, the late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's son and Congress MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The Election Commission Friday said that voting compartments in polling stations should be made only of cardboard or plastic board and these should not be located near ...

Taipei, Nov 20 (DPA) A majority of Taiwan residents have more trust in US President Barack Obama than in their own president or Chinese President Hu Jintao, an opinion poll ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) A day after a passenger was killed and 40 others were injured in a train derailment after Maoist guerrillas blew up a track in Jharkhand, the ...

Palakkad (Kerala), Nov 20 (IANS) While former Kerala chief minister K.Karunakaran's son K.Muraleedharan is meeting Congress leaders in Delhi to plead for his re-entry to the party, leader of opposition Oommen Chandy ...

Lucknow, Nov 20 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav had repeatedly ignored warnings about the potential harm that his bonhomie with Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) rebel Kalyan Singh would cause ...

Rome, Nov 20 (IANS/AKI) The transsexual prostitute at the centre of the sex, drugs and extortion scandal involving former governor Piero Marrazzo was Friday found burned to death in a fire at ...

Mumbai, Nov 20 (IANS) Suspected Shiv Sainiks Friday attacked and vandalised the office of the IBN Lokmat TV channel at Vikhroli in north-east Mumbai.

Bangalore, Nov 20 (IANS) Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist and long time Congressman B. Shankaranand, who headed the joint parliamentary probe into $1.3 billion Bofors gun scandal, died Thursday of cardiac arrest. He was ...

Amethi (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 20 (IANS) Priyanka Gandhi took to the wheel even as elder brother and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi sat next to her after the two landed in ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 20 (IANS) Nepal's historic peace pact, which ended a decade of violent communist insurgency, turned three years Friday under the threat of unravelling. On this date in 2006, the ...

Dhanbad, Nov 19 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday asked the people of Jharkhand to vote for her party in the coming assembly elections so that the state could have a ...

Srinagar, Nov 20 (IANS) Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, who heads the moderate faction of Jammu and Kashmir's separatist Hurriyat Conference, plans to visit Beijing after Eid on Nov 28 on an invitation from ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday chose its young face Varun Gandhi to lead the party's agitation against sugarcane pricing in the Lok Sabha. The MP from ...