India

India is celebrating its 68th Republic Day in the presence of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Chief Guest of the Republic Day parade.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has received death threats on his official e-mail, which says four men could target the AAP leader.

India and Pakistan must reform their institutions of governance to accelerate economic growth on a sustained basis for poverty reduction, lawmakers and experts from both the countries attending a meeting here said notwithstanding the chill in bilateral ti...

Pakistan on Tuesday announced first successful test firing of its new surface-to-surface, nuclear-capable missile Ababeel, with a range of 2,200km.

"The government of India should know and understand that the Northeast is not a dumping ground of illegal migrants, whoever they may be -- Hindus or Muslims," NESO Chairman Samuel Jyrwa said.

Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday said that relation with China is normal and talks related to the boundary issues are going on.

The IIM Amendment Bill which was aimed at granting statutory powers to the IIMS enabling them to grant degrees instead of diplomas received the stamp of approval from the Union Cabinet on Tuesday.

Pathan was rushed to hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. Earlier, reports said he felt suffocated during a stampede at the railway station and then suffered a heart attack.

Punjab's Malwa region has seen many caste conflicts over the last four years, mostly centered around the 51,000 acres of land reserved for Dalits. Jhaloor has been the epicenter of peasant movements in Punjab. Last October, protests broke out there as Dal...

The Survey of India would soon "re-measure" the height of Mount Everest to verify doubts expressed over it in some sections of the scientific community following the major earthquake in Nepal two years ago and to help scientific studies, Surveyor General...

Director General of Police S P Vaid on Monday assessed the security arrangements ahead of the Republic Day celebrations in Jammu & Kashmir.

The central government has pressed into service the Herculean C-17 Globemaster aircraft to ferry fuel to locked-down Manipur.

In a rare gesture, President Pranab Mukherjee has set aside Union Home Ministry's recommendation and commuted the death sentence of four persons convicted of killing of 34 upper caste people in Bihar in 1992.

Jallikattu was conducted in various parts of Tamil Nadu but protests at Alanganallur in Madurai, where people demanded a "permanent solution", forced Chief Minister O Panneerselvam to leave for Chennai without inaugurating the bull-taming sport.

Afroz Khan Pathan, serving a life sentence in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case, has topped the Gandhi Peace Examination, in which 83 other inmates of Taloja Jail in neighbouring Thane district, appeared.

An uneasy calm prevailed at Bhangar in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, a day after one person was killed in crossfire between groups of outsiders and villagers as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reviewed the situation at a meeting wi...