The stormy proceedings and final outcome in parliament on Tuesday were ample evidence, if needed, of the importance...

The day after the UPA won the trust vote as the Opposition began expelling its MPs who had crossed over...

Senator Barack Obama, on his first and likely only overseas trip as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee...

Now India need no longer jump out of its skin at meaningless slogans from the past

It is easy to get carried away by the thought that the Left's exit will liberate the UPA government to unleash economic and social reforms.

Knives were out in the Opposition camp on Wednesday a day after cross-voting and abstention by MPs helped the UPA Government sail through the trust vote.

The players didn't get the opportunity to go for a referral, not asking the third umpire from making any historic intervention.

Fresh from winning the vote of confidence of the UPA government, commerce and industry minister Kamal Nath...

One doesn't know what happens to Somnath Chatterjee from here. Even after his expulsion, he is constitutionally under no...

In remarks that may deepen the row over the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project, the Centre today told the Supreme Court that the issue could not be one of faith...

In a new twist to the controversy surrounding the 2001 royal palace massacre, a Nepalese soldier claiming to be an...

CPM carries out its threat. But who's been hurt by Somnath's expulsion?

Four years after he handed the BJP an embarrassing defeat by beating veteran Murli Manohar Joshi in the Allahabad Lok Sabha seat...

Asafa Powell took on the world's fastest man with every intention of beating him to the finish line.

It was the day of bulls. As expected, the stock market on Wednesday gave a thumbs up to the government's victory...

Through all the accusations and counter-accusations in Parliament, one name figured prominently...

Twenty-four hours after three BJP MPs stunned the nation by waving bundles of cash in the Lok Sabha to allege they were being bribed by the Samajwadi Party...

Osama bin Laden's driver knew the target of the fourth hijacked jetliner in the Sept. 11 attacks...

If you say you have the 'cash-vote' tape, you need to explain why it doesn't a story make

A day after the UPA won the trust vote, the Left parties on Wednesday said the victory was not a mandate for going ahead with the Indo-US nuclear deal...

The Indian women's 4x400m relay squad might have shone at the Asian Grand Prix series last month to make the cut for the Olympics....

Not content with the June 5 increase in retail prices of consumer fuels, the petroleum ministry has pitched for another hike...

"Like death, disciplinary action can visit a CPM leader at any time, unexpectedly," said M V Raghavan, who was thrown out of the party two decades ago...

Radovan Karadzic will conduct his own defence in the Hague tribunal and is convinced he will be cleared...

The vote is over, and the nuclear hungama is thankfully on the backburner for a while.

After his impassionate speech in the Lok Sabha, National Conference president Omar Abdullah returned to the Valley on Wednesday.

Once again, it's the Asian bloc versus the Rest on the decision to stage Champions Trophy in Pakistan.

After failing to impose an export ban on iron ore to augment domestic supplies for the steel sector and bring...

Emboldened by the trust vote win, the empowered group of ministers on Special Economic Zones is considering a proposal to dilute a crucial pre-requisite...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday praised US participation in last week's talks with Tehran...

You can ill afford to open a photo album or crave crisp pappads or biscuits in the rainy season.

"My mind goes back to 7th November, 1990 when another no-confidence motion was being discussed in this House brought by the BJP...

Hopping onto Delhi's short-distance trains to travel from a remote Palwal village to various cricket grounds across the Capital...

Just a day after the UPA won the trust vote, Finance minister P Chidambaram stated in Jaipur on Wednesday...

As India launched a massive diplomatic campaign with as many as 10 envoys...

For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumour and facts about Apple, the notoriously secretive computer company, on his site, MacRumors.com

Karadzic's capture is what the Balkans need to achieve normality

If the failure to dislodge the Manmohan Singh Government during Tuesday's trust vote caused any disappointment to BSP chief Mayawati...

At a time when Sharad Pawar & Co are ripping apart players and cricket bodies for the slightest association with the rebel Indian Cricket League...

Having come under sharp criticism from the civil aviation ministry to get its act together...

The patient in the ICU of L.K. Advani's description in his speech finally managed to survive, what with his own partymen cross-voting and abstaining. Quite a reversal, in fact.

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged staunch support for Israel during a visit...

Even as Chief Minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi maintained that the alliance with the Left parties in the state was intact...

But for some hundreds of ground staff that had been involved in the mopping-up operations and took a well deserved...

The Indian currency today closed stronger by a massive 64 paise against the greenback on anticipation...

An Indian blogger's write-ups on five things Pakistanis love about their country may soon be included in a Pakistani school text book.

Olympian Jagbir Singh is tipped to be the frontrunner to take over from coach A K Bansal as the Indian Olympic...

The HRD Ministry's renewed efforts last month to reserve faculty positions in IITs at the assistant professor level...

We extended support to you (Manmohan Singh government) on the basis of a Common Minimum Programme.

In what appears to mark an end to the practice of exchanging gifts with world leaders at 10 Downing Street...

Carlos Sastre of Spain won Wednesday's 17th stage of the Tour de France, the hardest ride this year up three huge...

World number three Novak Djokovic opened the defence of his Toronto Masters title in impressive style with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Canadian Frank Dancevic on Tuesday.

The Defence Ministry is set to float a Rs 3,000-crore global tender on Thursday to acquire 197 light helicopters for the Army and Air Force...

With the Left safely out of the way after the trust vote, the Government is set to push key deals in the defence sector...

The Indian Cricket League has proposed to lease the Sardar Patel Stadium from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation...

Tiger poaching continues unabated across the country. On Saturday, two tiger skins and a skeleton were seized at Swarghat in Himachal Pradesh...

The Tenth Schedule - popularly known as the Anti-Defection Act - was included in the Constitution in 1985 by the Rajiv Gandhi ministry...

I have personal reservations about describing this civil nuclear cooperation agreement as some sort of a deal.

The UPA government today is like a patient in the ICU room. If anyone talks about that patient, the first question naturally asked is, "Is he going to survive or not?"

Mr Speaker, you have very rightly fixed the time of voting at dusk (6 p.m). In the Mahabharata there was a demon who could not be killed either during the day or at night.

The short question is - does India want to end the nuclear isolation that we find ourselves in since 1974, more so since 1998?

The short question is - does India want to end the nuclear isolation that we find ourselves in since 1974, more so since 1998?

A few kilometres off Bijawadi village in Maan tehsil, Sanjay Vittal Bhosale has let loose his three buffaloes on the vast drylands.

Mahesh Gajanan Dharme of Deshing village in Sangli district paid Rs 20,000 to the Irrigation Department in June for water for his five-acre field...

He was once the blue-eyed boy of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, till the Rizwanur Rehman controversy struck last year.

It is important at this point not to speak as a member of a political party, but as an Indian.

I am a Muslim and an Indian as well. I see no distinction between the two.

A two-day conference of education ministers on Higher & Technical Education opened...

Today, inflation has already touched 12 per cent. Prices of almost all the essential commodities are rising.

The resolution here is on the vote of confidence moved by the government.

The issue that we are discussing here has got the support of a vast majority of this country while only a few people are opposing it.

The Congress and its partners were not sure whether they would win the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.

The Left has been instrumental in installing the UPA government to some extent.

Hiraben Nanekar hopes her two huge containers of water will last her a week. One is for her family of four and the other for peacocks in this village of Shirur tehsil, 60 km from Pune.

Tension erupted in Jammu on Wednesday following the death of a local youth, who allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison...

In a judgement that child rights activists termed shocking, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday acquitted two British nationals...

Gulmarg saw a complete shutdown on Monday enforced by traders, who were protesting against the grenade attack that left a tourist dead and two others injured.

On behalf of our party leader, I gratefully observe and record in this august House the support and help rendered by our honourable friends from the Left.

The UPA government has been reduced to a minority government. Having accepted this, the prime minister should have quit.

I have been listening to every speech made by my honourable colleagues from the other side.

A CBI court on Wednesday issued summons to BJP MP and former Union Minister C P Thakur after taking cognisance of favouritism charges...

Impressed with the annual meet in Lindau, Germany, during which students get the opportunity to interact with Nobel laureates...

Stung by the accusations that Samajwadi Party (SP) leaders were also involved in the 'note-for-vote' scam before the trust vote...

The Chhattisgarh Government is contemplating opening 'credit shops' in the Naxalite-infested areas of Dantewada and Bijapur...