India

President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday favoured a constructive debate on simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assemblies and funding of polls to eradicate money power. The Government, he said, is committed to combating the "grave…

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi may have been looking for virtues in their new-found friendship and political alliance, but it now looks like the move might have given a fresh lease of…

A Delhi court on Monday summoned Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders to be present on next date of hearing as it is likely to frame charges against them in a criminal defamation plea filed by…

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to modify its order on former CBI director Ranjit Sinha's plea that SIT probe should not have been ordered against him. A bench headed by Justice M B Lokur said that the order has already been passed…

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh helped liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya get loans even when he had failed to clear crores in dues, the BJP alleged today, citing letters that have been reported in the media. The BJP quoted from a news…