Washington, Nov.17 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has incited conservatives back home by bowing before Japanese Emperor Akihito during a visit to Japan last week. According to a Washington Times report, Obama ...

New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Speculation continued over Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Maharashtra unit chief Nitin Gadkari, whose name has been thrown up as the surprise choice of the party's next ...

Brussels, Nov 10 (DPA) European Union (EU) leaders are expected to choose the first ever president of the 27-member bloc next week, at a summit scheduled for Nov 19, diplomats in ...

New Delhi/Hyderabad, Nov 9 (IANS) Ahead of his planned fast-unto-death to achieve separate statehood for Telangana region, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao Monday met President Pratibha Patil in ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The political crisis in Karnataka's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government deepened Thursday as the dissenting Reddy brothers, who are demanding Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa's scalp, refused ...

New Delhi/Bangalore, Nov 5 (IANS) Snubbing the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) efforts for a solution to the political crisis in Karnataka, dissident minister G. Janardhana Reddy Thursday rebuffed Chief Minister B.S. ...

Hyderabad, Nov 5 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid Thursday criticised the endorsement of a fatwa against the singing of "Vande mataram" by Muslims, saying some people ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) efforts to resolve the political crisis in Karnataka hit a roadblock Thursday with the dissident Reddy brothers, who are also ministers, ...

New Delhi, Nov.5 (ANI): The weeklong imbroglio in Karnataka's political arena, due to ongoing fight between Chief Minister B.S.Yeddyurappa and the mining magnets Reddy brothers, is likely to end today following a ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said Thursday that he would meet Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders as well as the dissident Reddy brothers, both of whom ...

London, Nov. 4 (ANI): With Prime Minister Gordon Brown's New Labour party breaking a promise to give 60-million Britons a say on the controversial Lisbon Treaty, the last hope of blocking ...

New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will remain in the post, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Monday stated, putting an end to the intense leadership ...

New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday continued its efforts to solve the leadership tussle in Karnataka where a faction led by the Reddy brothers is gunning ...

Brussels, Oct 30 (DPA) The European Union (EU) leaders Friday reached a compromise on how much money to offer developing countries to fight climate change, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said at an ...

By Ben Nimmo Luxembourg, Oct 28 (DPA) What the European Union needs is a Barack Obama of its own. That, at least, was the impression which some European Union foreign ministers gave as ...

New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) The Jama Masjid United Forum (JMUF) is organising an international conference against terrorism later this month, with the aim to dispel notions linking terrorism to Islam. The ...

Brussels, Oct 20 (DPA) The European Union should pledge to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 in a bid to forge a global deal on fighting ...

London, Oct. 18 (ANI): Tony Blair's former chief adviser on the European Union has joined the club of those who want to overturn the ex-prime minister's bid of becoming the President of ...

New York, Sep 22 (DPA) The UN is looking to inject some much-needed political will into efforts to reach a new global climate treaty, as it hosts more than 100 world ...

New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Left parties have okayed the alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP), Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and some regional parties for the Oct 13 ...

Hyderabad, Sep 4 (IANS) There was an outpouring of grief across Andhra Pradesh Friday with much of the state shutting down to mourn the late Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, whose ...

Washington, August 18 (ANI): Vaccination for the prevention of H1N1 influenza virus should be given top priority just in case disease patterns in the northern hemisphere follow those in the southern hemisphere, ...

Following is the text of the President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil’s address to the Nation by on the eve of the 63rd Independence Day: “My Fellow Citizens, ...

New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Friday greeted fellow citizens on the eve of the Independence Day and urged them to rededicate themselves to promote an inclusive ...

Washington, Aug 10 (ANI): A new study has revealed that people working at powerful positions tend to interpret the events in more abstract terms, and with more certainty and positivity than ordinary ...

New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Syed Abdullah Bukhari, the grand old Shahi Imam of Delhi's historic Jama Masjid and for long one of India's most outspoken Muslim leaders, died here Wednesday after ...

By Prem Prakash London, July 1: The success of any democracy is dictated not just by the kind of government a country has, but how effective an alternative does the country possesses ...

New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Meira Kumar, the country's first woman and Dalit speaker, Saturday paid homage to national leaders including Mahatma Gandhi at their memorials here. She along with her family members ...

By Kul Bhushan New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) A significant section of Indians settled in Britain say they will contribute more to India's development now that the Congress has won the elections to ...

India the largest democracy in the world is just ten days away to elect its inner orbit of goverance for the federal structure,More than 70 Cr people eligible to vote out of ...