Washington, July 5 (DPA) The General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) was meeting Saturday to discuss suspension of troubled Honduras just hours after the unrecognised post-coup government said it ...

Bhubaneswar, July 4 (IANS) Manoj Pradhan, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator who is an accused in last year's communal violence in Orissa and has been in jail since October, got ...

Lucknow, July 4 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national general secretary Satish Misra may continue to remain her confidant, but Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has no intentions of letting him ...

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Saturday said the Delhi High Court had done a "very dangerous thing" by decriminalising gay sex, though Janata Dal-United ...

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) led by former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda appeared to be on the verge of a split as its national executive Saturday ...

Washington, July 4 (DPA) Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was catapulted to national prominence as the Republican vice presidential candidate last year, will resign later this month, she said Friday. In a ...

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) led by former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda appeared to be on the verge of a split as its national executive Saturday ...

Bhubaneswar, July 4 (IANS) An Orissa legislator, missing for the last two weeks after resigning from the assembly, Saturday re-appeared and withdrew his resignation, saying that he had been forced to step ...

It came as quite a surprising news to everyone when it was heard that a key politician of the United States of America, Sarah Palin has decided to resign from her post ...

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has asked his party colleague and IT and Communication Minister A. Raja to respond to allegations that ...

Bhopal, July 4 (IANS) Expressing concern over the decline in polling percentage, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Saturday called upon lawmakers to introspect why people were losing interest in the poll ...

Hyderabad, July 4 (IANS) The murder and rape case against a legislator of Andhra Pradesh's main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Saturday took a new turn when another student of a nursing ...

Yangon, July 4 (DPA) The Myanmar junta Saturday snubbed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's requests to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, or even to visit the Nobel peace laureate, who ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska on Saturday said she regrets Governor Sarah Palin's decision to resign her position. "I am deeply disappointed that the Governor has ...

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), which is holding a special politburo meeting here, is expected to announce measures to curb the infighting in its Kerala unit ...

New York, July 4 (IANS) This happens in the world's oldest democracy as well. Two lawmakers, one accused of corruption and the other of slashing his girlfriend's face with a broken drinking ...

Bhubaneswar, July 4 (IANS) Conceding Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's demand, the central government has extended the deployment of its paramilitary forces for two more weeks in the state's Kandhamal district, ...

By Amulya Ganguli The M.S. Liberhan report on the Babri Masjid demolition could not have come at a worse time for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). First, the party is still reeling from ...

Washington, July 3 (Xinhua) A robotic version of US President Barack Obama debuted at an event Friday at the Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The animated, speaking figure of Obama and ...

Washington, July 4 (DPA) Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was catapulted to national prominence as the Republican vice presidential candidate last year, will resign later this month, she said Friday. She also ...

New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Under attack from CPI-M party members in his state, Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said Friday he had left the issue of his continuing in the post ...

Yangon, July 3 (DPA) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met Myanmar's military leader Friday on an official visit that aimed at pressing for the release of all political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung ...

Kathmandu, July 3 (IANS) Given only a couple more weeks by the Maoists and unable to table the budget in parliament due to their opposition, Nepal's beleaguered Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal ...

New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) After the Delhi High Court's landmark verdict decriminalising gay sex, the matter is now in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's court - on whether to amend the ...

New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Aware of Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's temper, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday gestured her party MPs not to upset her when she presented the railway budget ...

Lucknow, July 3 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi's reported hate speeches have landed him in fresh trouble with the Uttar Pradesh government Friday sanctioning legal action against ...

New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday taunted the Left for calling her rail budget a "manifesto" for the West Bengal assembly polls of 2011, retorting "why not ...

New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) The Left parties were divided in their reaction to the railway budget unveiled by their bete noire Mamata Banerjee here Friday, with the Communist Party of ...

Yangon, July 3 (DPA) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Myanmar Friday for a two-day official visit during which he will press for the release of all political prisoners including opposition leader ...

Tehran, July 3 (IANS) Iran has freed three more staff members of the British embassy who were detained on charges of stoking the post-election unrest, a media report said Friday. All the eight ...