India

Bowing to demands from various quarters, the Maharashtra government on Thursday decided to modify the names of two iconic locations - the airport and the main rail terminus in Mumbai, officials said here.

The incident happened last week when the puppy entered Pramod's house and the latter offered him food, police said. In what may be called a love or its eagerness, the dog scratched the accused's leg with a paw.

Shares of Bank of Baroda plunged 2.71 per cent to settle at Rs 157.85, followed by PNB with a fall of 1.94 per cent to Rs 131.70 and SBI 1.47 per cent to Rs 255.35 on the BSE.

To save on money and manpower and phase out use of paper, the office of the Advocate General (AG) in Haryana has gone paperless from Wednesday.

Actor, political analyst and founder, editor of Thuglak magazine Cho Ramaswamy passed away at Chennai's Apollo Hospitals at 3.58 am on Wednesday due to heart failure. He was 82.

The Congress candidate had finished third and forfeited his deposit in the electoral battle wherein Modi defeated his nearest rival Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party by a margin of 3.71 lakh votes.

Terming demonetisation a "colossal disaster", Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha today alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the exercise as a "publicity stunt" to divert people's attention from his government's "mounting failures".

Jayalalithaa and MGR acted together in 28 films, became chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and died under same circumstances.

Parliament on Tuesday condoled the death of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa saying the country has lost a courageous and charismatic leader.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won the online reader's poll for TIME Person of the Year 2016, beating out other world leaders like US President-elect Donald Trump, incumbent US leader Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Normal life was not affected in Tamil Nadu on Monday after the hospital sources said Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa had suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening.

Pakistan’s former army chief, General Raheel Sharif (retd.) has agreed to command a multinational Islamic anti-terror force, on certain terms and conditions, including being allowed to arbitrate between belligerents, a media report said.

The central government has taken a number of measures to provide incentives to district administrations in order to give a boost to cashless digital payment systems across districts, talukas and panchayats, said an official release on Sunday.

The Supreme Court order directing cinema halls to play the national anthem before screening to "instill committed patriotism and nationalism" has received mixed reactions from legal experts with a few terming it as "judiciary's over-enthusiasm" and others...

Important documents related to suspension of human rights during Emergency are not available with it, the Union Home Ministry has told the Central Information Commission which has now directed it to give an affidavit in this regard.

Sanjay Hegde, senior advocate and amicus curiae to the Supreme Court in the Nirbhaya case, has submitted his report to the apex court on Friday raising serious doubts on the merits of the evidence submitted by the prosecution based on which four convicts...