Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said Left Wing Extremist groups were "restless" because of the "unprecedented success" of security forces' operations against them, and termed the Maoist attack at Sukma, in Chhattisgarh, in which 12 CRPF troopers were killed a result of that frustration.
Two senior Congress leaders, Kamal Nath and Amarinder Singh, the Punjab Chief Minister-designate, have said it is time Rahul Gandhi is formally anointed Congress president.
Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday sought Indonesia's partnership in cementing India's ties with the ASEAN bloc.
A day after a minor girl was raped in Govind Puri area of south Delhi, another similar crime was reported in Neb Sarai area on Tuesday.
Punjab's Chief Minister-elect Amarinder Singh on Tuesday reiterated that the right time has come to elevate Rahul Gandhi as the Congress President.
The mercury dropped in the northern plains with the national capital recording the coldest day in the month of March in a decade today.
Until now, the oldest known red algae was 1.2 billion years old, said the paper in the journal PLOS Biology.
President Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee on Tuesday slammed Congress party over a tweet posted by the party's official Twitter handle.
A newborn baby was allegedly abducted by an unidentified woman from a government hospital in Kolkata on Tuesday, triggering protests, including a road blockade in the city's heart.
Vietnam is a hot market for rhino horn, believed to have medicinal properties and is in high demand among the communist nation`s growing middle class.
France's rightwing presidential candidate Francois Fillon was charged Tuesday with several offences over a fake jobs scandal, including misuse of public funds, his lawyer said.
A powerful winter storm on Tuesday began its thrashing of the mid-Atlantic and the northeast with heavy snow, sleet and rain, prompting more than 7,800 flight cancellations, school closures and warnings from officials to stay off the roads.
The Syrian government committed "slow-motion slaughter" of unknown numbers of Syrians trapped in besieged and hard-to-reach areas by wilfully denying them food and health care, according to a new report today from a civil rights group.
An autopsy on the body of a JNU student -- who allegedly committed suicide -- was deferred to Wednesday after his parents refused to give consent and demanded the presence of a "neutral" forensic expert.
Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said it Congress' accusation that BJP was 'stealing' mandate in Goa was 'a bit too much'.
Seema Verma has been confirmed by the US Senate for a top health care position in the Trump administration, becoming the second Indian-American in the new government to be approved by the upper chamber of the US Congress.
Uttar Pradesh BJP legislature party is likely to meet here on March 16 to decide who would be the next chief minister of the key Hindi heartland state, days after the party's landslide victory.
It's a big win for BJP as the party clinched power in two more states.
The Hague: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte today slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he said the Dutch "character" was "broken" over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
Consequent to the mutual agreement between India and Sri Lanka, 77 Indian fishermen released with efforts of High Commission of India in Colombo.
New Delhi: A Dalit research scholar at JNU, who was at the forefront of a students' movement following Rohith Vemula's suicide, was found dead at a friend's residence with his family demanding a CBI probe into his death.
Bharatiya Janata Party won a landslide victory in UP.
Reacting to the political debacle of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance in Punjab, Haryana Sports Minister Anil Vij said that the saffron party would have won the Punjab Assembly elections if it had contested them without the coalition.
Preet Bharara, the high-profile federal prosecutor who was fired by President Donald Trump's administration after refusing to resign, has been replaced temporarily by a longtime friend and top adviser.
A goal each from Sunil Chhetri and Sandesh Jhingan helped Bengaluru Football Club beat Mohun Bagan 2-1 in their AFC Cup match at Sree Kanteerava Stadium here today.