Abhishek Chakraborty With Inputs From Agencies

Taking a leaf out of Friday's "historic" Korean summit in which leaders of North and South Korea agreed to pursue a permanent peace treaty, a media report in Islamabad suggested that India and Pakistan should try to resolve their differences in a similar manner.

Russia said today that it expects to sign a mega deal with India this year on the sale of S-400 surface-to-air missiles, the Interfax news agency reported.

On National Panchayati Raj day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Madhya Pradesh's Mandla district to meet and address panchayat bodies as well as independent communities. The prime minister launched a scheme that seeks to strengthen the country's Panchayati Raj system and address critical gaps that hinder its success.

Vanuatu and China have both denied a report that Beijing is planning to establish a permanent military presence in the Pacific island nation. Australia's Fairfax Media, through is newspaper 'Sydney Morning Herald', had reported yesterday that preliminary discussions for China to locate a full-scale military base in Vanuatu had been held recently. T...

Pakistan's civilian government is just a facade for the world, and it is actually the countries army that calls the shots and runs the show. This is what Pakistan's former envoy to the United States Hussain Haqqani meant when he said that Pakistan's Army has "mastered the art of a non-coup coup." While there is a prime minister and a government in ...

A senior official of IVRCL, the company which was building the Kolkata flyover that collapsed last week, was arrested by the police this morning.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took on Nitish Kumar today for challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to debate development in Bihar, where elections will be held in five phases from next month.

Kerala has ordered a pullout of Maggi noodles from government-run outlets and the Delhi government has said samples that it tested were found "unsafe," amid a country-wide scrutiny of the product for high content of lead and mono-sodium glutamate or MSG, a taste enhancer.

The suit continued to be the leitmotif in Rahul Gandhi's attack on the Narendra Modi government on Day 2 of his visit to Kerala. This time he told fishermen, "We are not scared of Narendra Modi and his five or six friends in suits."

48 million British voters will decide today who they want to rule the world's fifth-largest economy in a tight election, that has seen Prime Minister David Cameron and other leaders eyeing undecided voters and wooing the 615,000 voters of Indian origin. Polls open at 0600 GMT (11:30 am IST) and close at 2100 GMT (02:30 am IST).

Amethi, Rahul Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh is in the spotlight. While Mr Gandhi is set to join issue with the Narendra Modi government in Parliament today over the closure of a food park there, the Centre has bigger plans - to develop Amethi as a smart city.

A gunbattle broke out between terrorists and security forces at Hardshoora village in north Kashmir's Baramulla district this morning.

Taking a leaf out of Friday's "historic" Korean summit in which leaders of North and South Korea agreed to pursue a permanent peace treaty, a media report in Islamabad suggested that India and Pakistan should try to resolve their differences in a similar manner.

Russia said today that it expects to sign a mega deal with India this year on the sale of S-400 surface-to-air missiles, the Interfax news agency reported.

On National Panchayati Raj day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Madhya Pradesh's Mandla district to meet and address panchayat bodies as well as independent communities. The prime minister launched a scheme that seeks to strengthen the country's Panchayati Raj system and address critical gaps that hinder its success.

Vanuatu and China have both denied a report that Beijing is planning to establish a permanent military presence in the Pacific island nation. Australia's Fairfax Media, through is newspaper 'Sydney Morning Herald', had reported yesterday that preliminary discussions for China to locate a full-scale military base in Vanuatu had been held recently. T...

Pakistan's civilian government is just a facade for the world, and it is actually the countries army that calls the shots and runs the show. This is what Pakistan's former envoy to the United States Hussain Haqqani meant when he said that Pakistan's Army has "mastered the art of a non-coup coup." While there is a prime minister and a government in ...

A senior official of IVRCL, the company which was building the Kolkata flyover that collapsed last week, was arrested by the police this morning.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took on Nitish Kumar today for challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to debate development in Bihar, where elections will be held in five phases from next month.

Kerala has ordered a pullout of Maggi noodles from government-run outlets and the Delhi government has said samples that it tested were found "unsafe," amid a country-wide scrutiny of the product for high content of lead and mono-sodium glutamate or MSG, a taste enhancer.

The suit continued to be the leitmotif in Rahul Gandhi's attack on the Narendra Modi government on Day 2 of his visit to Kerala. This time he told fishermen, "We are not scared of Narendra Modi and his five or six friends in suits."

48 million British voters will decide today who they want to rule the world's fifth-largest economy in a tight election, that has seen Prime Minister David Cameron and other leaders eyeing undecided voters and wooing the 615,000 voters of Indian origin. Polls open at 0600 GMT (11:30 am IST) and close at 2100 GMT (02:30 am IST).

Amethi, Rahul Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh is in the spotlight. While Mr Gandhi is set to join issue with the Narendra Modi government in Parliament today over the closure of a food park there, the Centre has bigger plans - to develop Amethi as a smart city.

A gunbattle broke out between terrorists and security forces at Hardshoora village in north Kashmir's Baramulla district this morning.