India

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday pitched for using tourism to increase India's global influence.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra posed the query to Jaypee Associates after the counsel appearing for IDBI Bank raised objection over the proposal to hive off the 165-kilometre long expressway by the applicant firm.

An intercity train ran over five women in Munger early on Monday morning, four of whom died on the spot, prompting a protest by the locals.

In the video, the victim can be seen sitting on the footpath near the quarters in Railway New Colony in Vizag and a man, wearing a blue shirt, raping her.

The criminal law ordinance issued by the Vasundhara Raje government seeks to protect both serving and former judges, magistrates and public servants in the state from being investigated for on-duty action without its prior sanction.

The Rs 650-crore ‘Roll-on, Roll-Off’ service links Ghogha in Bhavnagar district of Saurashtra region and Dahej in Bharuch district across the Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea.

A civilian working as a porter for the Army was killed "when the Pakistani troops resorted to indiscriminate firing, the official said.

“As part of the government, he shouldn’t have written it,” Siddaramaiah said. "It is being made into a political issue. There were four wars against British and Tipu fought them all,” he added.

Schools, shops and other business establishments remained closed due to the strike called by separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik.

References to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in 'Mersal' have not gone down well with the BJP. The party objected to what it termed "untruths" about the central taxation regime in the film and demanded that the references be deleted.

Participating in the discussions on counter-terrorism and the use of information and technology, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that India had long been a victim of the most vicious terrorism unleashed from across the border.

Protestors targeted a local police station and torched around 20 vehicles including police vans. The policemen to open fire in which a local resident Jitendra was allegedly killed and five others were injured. About 20 policemen were also injured in stone...

This is Prime Minister Modi’s second visit to Kedarnath this season. He had visited the shrine on May 3 when its gates had been reopened after the winter break.

A division bench of the Kerala High Court said it was appalled to notice the recent trend in the state to “sensationalise every case of inter-religious marriage as either 'love jihad' or 'ghar wapsi'”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stones for a slew of reconstruction projects in Kedarpuri, including renovation of Adi Guru Shankaracharya's tomb which was devastated in the catastrophic flash floods of 2013.

Only 5% of the 4,600 people who took part in the survey, said they already have crackers in their possession and would still burn them, despite a ban on firecrackers.