As Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad on Thursday apologised in the Lok Sabha for the assault on an airline staffer but defended himself, an ugly situation arose as two Union Ministers got involved in heated exchanges and almost came to blows. ....

A police case was started against West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh for spearheading a Ram Navmi rally by wielding a sword in his constituency Kharagpur of West Midnapore district. ....

Five Army soldiers were buried under an avalanche in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, all the five were rescued but three of them succumbed to injuries, officials said. ....

Emphasising the need for religious harmony, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday said India is still the best country to uphold religious harmony and tolerance. ....

Border Security Force (BSF) troopers on Thursday recovered five kg of heroin in Punjab's Abohar sector, an official said. ....

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted raids on the premises of 18 bureaucrats across nine states in connection with their involvement in alleged violation of the government's demonetisation scheme, money laundering and other cases, an official said. ....

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed four bills related to the implementation of the pan-India Goods and Services Tax. ....

Observing that the upcoming multi-modal terminal here will be Jharkhand's growth engine, Union Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said the Centre might turn Sahebganj into a smart city. ....

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani arrived in this Hindu holy city on Thursday to set up a natural meditation centre in memory of his late wife Kamla on the Ganga's banks. ....

Naresh Agrawal of the Samajwadi Party on Thursday said that social media was being used to defame Members of Parliament (MPs) and the government must come up with some mechanism to deal with the problem. ....

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday denied any incident of beating or lynching in Rajasthan by 'gau rakshaks' (cow vigilantes). ....

“Cow has four legs, two ears and one tail. It gives milk which we drink. From the milk we can make butter, ghee and curd.” the five-year-old kid was pestering his grandfather to hear his recitation. But the grand father was too glued to the TV news. The din blazing out on the TV screen soon caught the kid’s attention. Some people were thrashing few men mercilessly. The grandfather explained the news on Alwar thrashing to the quizzical child. The child left the room quietly and asked his mother, “listen to essay on cow. If I forget then ....

The opposition in both houses of Parliament on Thursday raised the issue of lynching of a Muslim man in Rajasthan's Alwar district by cow vigilantes, with a Congress leader blaming an "organised gang" and the government promising justice. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday laid the foundation stone of a multi-modal terminal on the River Ganga at Sahibganj in Jharkhand and also inaugrated the Govindpur- Jamtara- Dumka- Sahebganj Highway. ....

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday condemned the alleged lynching of a man by cow vigilantes in Alwar, saying "when government abdicates responsibility and allows lynch mobs to rule, tragedies of immense proportion follow". ....

Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad on Thursday said he had been "abused and manhandled" by an Air India official during his controversial flight last month when he had beaten a flight officer with his footwear, and offered to apologise for his behaviour but not to the 60-year-old Air India official. ....

Tripura is ready to supply an additional 60 MW of power to Bangladesh. The transmission is likely to start during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's four-day visit to India, a Minister said here on Thursday. ....

Incessant rain and untimely snowfall in the plains on Thursday caused a flood-like situation in Jammu and Kashmir, even though the Met office said there would be overall improvement in weather from Friday. ....

Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari on Thursday said that the Shunglu Committee has exposed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's misuse of authority and public money. ....

A dozen youths were detained by the police in Jammu and Kashmir after a video showing them singing the Pakistan national anthem during a cricket match went viral, an official confirmed on Thursday. ....