Despite perhaps the heaviest security arrangements for polling in a Naxal-hit district ever,the Maoists cast a pall over voting in Gadchiroli district on Tuesday.

Unidentified men abducted and killed the branch manager of a nationalised bank in adjoining Palamau district,a senior police officer said.

The Andhra Pradesh government faces its toughest task yet since the floods as it grapples with threats of outbreak of post-flood epidemics.

People stranded in their houses or roof tops were fleeced by people who came to rescue them in the guise of good Samaritans.

Justice Bhagwati Prasad of Gujarat HC asked the Registry of the High Court if it was not obeying the administrative orders of his court because he hails from Rajasthan.

A magistrate court at Cherthala near Alappuzha issued bailable arrest warrants against Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan.

The Kerala government decision to conduct a judicial probe into the Thekkady boat tragedy has once again brought to the fore the absence...

Former Haryana Chief Minister Rao Birender Singh died of a cardiac arrest at his residence here on Wednesday morning.

Chhatradhar Mahato,who leads the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) of Lalgarh,has an insurance policy worth Rs 1 crore.

A major tragedy struck a plant of Vedanta group’s Bharat Aluminium Co Ltd when a chimney collapsed during heavy rains and lightning,killing at least 20 people and trapping 50.

A day after both Maoists and CPI(M) claimed that they had killed each other’s cadre’s,Director General of Police Bhupinder...

An expert group of the Rural Development Ministry has suggested to Orissa govt that the actual level of BPL population in the state should be revised upwards from the present level of 47 pct.

Centre's affidavit in Ishrat Jahan encounter was cleared Jan 28,2005,seven months after the encounter in which two Pakistani nationals were also killed.

Peace efforts in Assam’s trouble-torn North Cachar Hills district on Sunday received a shot in the arm with as many as 193 cadres....

Born into a family of landlords,but a Communist by belief,Land and Land Reforms Minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah has been hitting the headlines....

Vijayan had submitted the Cabinet documents along with his review petition in SC last month,pleading to quash governor’s sanction to prosecute him in Lavalin scam.

KVP Rao sought to neutralise negative vibes in New Delhi against Jaganmohan explaining how over-the-top 'Jagan-as-CM' campaign was spontaneous emotional outpourings.

Six days after communal tension led to riots in Sangli and Miraj,CM Ashok Chavan decided that Ganesh immersion in Miraj will be conducted on Wednesday by relaxing the curfew for a few hours.

A new diktat of the Maoists to bus and taxi operators,ordering them not to carry any security personnel or face consequences,has put the police in a tight spot.

One in two persons resides in a slum in India's financial capital,according to a report.

A year after the Kandhamal riots,the district administration is hoping that a unique initiative involving youth will help defuse the hostility between tribal Hindus and Dalit Christians.

Even as Karnataka’s anti-Naxal force carries out intensified combing operations in the forests of the Western Ghats....

Giving a political dimension to the Muthoot murder case,CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday said the investigation has been moving in the right direction...

In a setback for security forces in the Valley,Hizbul Mujahideen chief commander of operations has been released on bail by a court after being in jail for more than two years.