India

Aravinda Pillalamarri, the inspiration for "Swades", says she was stopped by police during her morning stroll in her hometown and questioned about her immigration status making her feel unequal because of her colour, according to media reports.

Peter Mukherjea's son Rahul Mukherjea on Saturday took to twitter on Saturday defending Peter and putting the blame for Sheena Bora's murder on Indrani Mukherjea.

Stepping up pressure on the government following the success of the Jallikattu stir in Tamil Nadu, students, artistes and politicians on Friday staged a massive protest demanding removal of the ban on Kambala.

The CBI on Friday said it has registered a case against two Uttar Pradesh-based private persons on the charge of running a fake website named after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and collecting money from people for giving admissions in a fake organisation...

According to the forecast of India Meteorological Department (IMD), the minimum temperature in Delhi will drop to 9 degrees Celsius on Saturday against 13.5 degrees on Friday.

It was August 12, 2016, and the occasion was the inauguration of the University of Culture and Manipur State Film and Television Institute. In attendance were some of the most renowned intellectuals, poets and filmmakers of Manipur.

Two Indian snake hunters have been hired by Florida wildlife officials to get rid of Burmese pythons, which are wiping out small mammal populations driving some nearly to extinction in a tropical wetland in the US state.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST), the country's biggest tax reform initiative, figured at the Republic Day parade here on Thursday.

Delhi Police and paramilitary personnel will be keeping a tight vigil on Republic Day in the national capital on Thursday with an eye on the movement of animals in view of intelligence inputs that terror groups might use them as suicide bombers.

The 68th Republic Day Parade will showcase India's military strength and achievements in a range of areas and its diverse culture at the Rajpath on Thursday.

A jilted woman allegedly bobbitised her 23-year-old lover for planning to marry another girl at Naugawan (Darshan Singh) village of Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh.

A prisoner was killed, while a jailor, two security guards and nine inmates were injured when nearly 49 prisoners at Sada sub jail in Goa took the entire prison to "hostage" and tried to flee, police said on Wednesday.

Joining issue with veteran star Kamal Haasan who lashed out at it for opposing jallikattu and asked it to ban rodeos in US, animal rights group PETA on Tuesday said bullfighting and 'cruel activities' associated with rodeo were against the law in many Ame...

Suspected armed militants on Tuesday ambushed a convoy of trucks and oil tankers along a national highway that connects Assam with the Manipur capital, a police officer said.

Senior officers from the Indian Police Service (IPS) Bihar cadre seem to prefer central deputation over posting in the state, the state home department website figures suggest.