Chandrajit Mitra

Shashi Tharoor,the first leader to announce his candidature for the Congress president election, speaks to NDTV ahead of filing nominations for the October 17 contest.

It is Mallikarjun Kharge versus Shashi Tharoor as the Congress picks its first non-Gandhi president in 25 years. Mr Kharge, 80, is the candidate backed by the Gandhis and is almost certain to be elected in the October 17 polls.

Dangling from a speeding train, a thief was seen begging for his life, moments before he was dragged inside and thrashed for trying to snatch a passenger's mobile phone.

Indian visa applicants require a wait-time of over two years just for getting an appointment, a US government website showed, while the timeframe is only two days for countries like China.

A 40-foot statue of a veena, weighing 14 tonnes, has been installed at a prominent intersection in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya, which is set to be inaugurated today in a tribute to legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar on her 93rd birth anniversary.

Heavy rain inundated parts of Hyderabad last evening, causing massive traffic jams. The sudden spell of rain resulted in waterlogging in the low-lying areas of the city while Secunderabad was largely spared.

A cow was severely injured after being attacked by a pit bull in Kanpur amid a spate of similar attacks on humans being reported in recent days in different cities.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dialled past midnight after an Indian consulate in an Afghan city came under attack some years ago, recalled Foreign Minister S Jaishankar.

Two young men were thrown off their feet as a car hit them during a brawl in Ghaziabad yesterday. But the blows resumed as the college students got up, showed a video that has now gone viral.

Comedian Raju Srivastava died today in Delhi, more than a month after he was hospitalized after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 58.

A speeding truck ran over four people sleeping on a road divider in northeast Delhi late last night. Two others were also injured in the incident near the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus depot in Seemapuri at 1.51 am, police said.

A tribal woman bitten by a snake was carried on a cot on shoulders across waist-deep water in Chhattisgarh as health officials couldn't reach their village due to heavy rain, said officials.

Gautam Adani became the world's second richest person today, but only for a brief period.

An undergraduate student was found dead at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) yesterday in a suspected case of suicide. However, no suicide note has been found.

In an awkward turn of events, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's failed attempt to put on his headphone evoked a laugh from Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting yesterday on the sidelines of a regional summit in Uzbekistan.

Shashi Tharoor,the first leader to announce his candidature for the Congress president election, speaks to NDTV ahead of filing nominations for the October 17 contest.

It is Mallikarjun Kharge versus Shashi Tharoor as the Congress picks its first non-Gandhi president in 25 years. Mr Kharge, 80, is the candidate backed by the Gandhis and is almost certain to be elected in the October 17 polls.

Dangling from a speeding train, a thief was seen begging for his life, moments before he was dragged inside and thrashed for trying to snatch a passenger's mobile phone.

Indian visa applicants require a wait-time of over two years just for getting an appointment, a US government website showed, while the timeframe is only two days for countries like China.

A 40-foot statue of a veena, weighing 14 tonnes, has been installed at a prominent intersection in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya, which is set to be inaugurated today in a tribute to legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar on her 93rd birth anniversary.

Heavy rain inundated parts of Hyderabad last evening, causing massive traffic jams. The sudden spell of rain resulted in waterlogging in the low-lying areas of the city while Secunderabad was largely spared.

A cow was severely injured after being attacked by a pit bull in Kanpur amid a spate of similar attacks on humans being reported in recent days in different cities.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dialled past midnight after an Indian consulate in an Afghan city came under attack some years ago, recalled Foreign Minister S Jaishankar.

Two young men were thrown off their feet as a car hit them during a brawl in Ghaziabad yesterday. But the blows resumed as the college students got up, showed a video that has now gone viral.

Comedian Raju Srivastava died today in Delhi, more than a month after he was hospitalized after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 58.

A speeding truck ran over four people sleeping on a road divider in northeast Delhi late last night. Two others were also injured in the incident near the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus depot in Seemapuri at 1.51 am, police said.

A tribal woman bitten by a snake was carried on a cot on shoulders across waist-deep water in Chhattisgarh as health officials couldn't reach their village due to heavy rain, said officials.

Gautam Adani became the world's second richest person today, but only for a brief period.

An undergraduate student was found dead at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) yesterday in a suspected case of suicide. However, no suicide note has been found.

In an awkward turn of events, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's failed attempt to put on his headphone evoked a laugh from Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting yesterday on the sidelines of a regional summit in Uzbekistan.