A court in the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday suspended the bail order of hardliner separatist leader Masrat Alam. ....

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked both Haryana and Punjab to maintain law and order in light of the proposed march by activists of Haryana's INLD to "dig" the Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal even as it asked Punjab to honour its orders on the water link. ....

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is running the central government in nexus with the RSS, VHP and corporate bodies, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here on Wednesday. ....

A cabinet panel on Wednesday approved a 900 MW hydro-electric project to be set up in Sankhuwasabha district of Nepal at a cost of Rs 5,723.72 crore. ....

Declining to pass any interim order to put on hold or annul the trust vote won by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami in the assembly, the Madras High court on Wednesday adjourned till February 27 the case filed by DMK leader M.K. Stalin. ....

Naga People's Front (NPF) supremo Shurhozelie Liezietsu was on Wednesday sworn in as the 17th Chief Minister of Nagaland following the resignation of T.R. Zeliang. ....

The DMK party under the leadership of Working President M. K. Stalin is on Wednesday holding a day long hunger strike against the events inside Tamil Nadu assembly on February 18. ....

The strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was on Wednesday reopened for one-way traffic after two days. ....

Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar on Tuesday met Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi ahead of the first strategic dialogue between the two sides which is likely to see India raise the issue of China blocking the ban on Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar, among other issues. ....

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed a Central Information Commission (CIC) direction to the CBSE to allow the inspection of Class 10 and 12 school records of Union Minister Smriti Irani. ....

The Congress on Tuesday demanded that a sitting judge under the supervision of the High Court must investigate the Naliya gang rape case, allegedly involving BJP leaders from Kutch, and also questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence on the issue. ....

Campaigning in elections for 53 assembly seats from 12 districts of Uttar Pradesh, which will go balloting in the fourth phase on February 23, ended on Tuesday evening. ....

Partha De, the man who was discovered living with his sister's corpse in 2015, was found burnt to death here on Tuesday, the city police said. ....

Tamil Nadu's major opposition party DMK on Tuesday announced its decision to move a no confidence motion against assembly Speaker P. Dhanapal. ....

Manipur Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam on Tuesday escaped an assassination attempt in Tamenglong district when militants attacked his cavalcade. Police suspect a tribal militant outfit to be behind the attack. ....

"Gujarat ke gadhe" (donkeys of Gujarat), "Loktantra ke aatankwaadi" (terrorists of democracy), "Behenji Sampatti Party", "Negative Dalit Man"... Political discourse amid ongoing assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh has touched a new low. ....

Newspaper headlines last week screamed that India's polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) created history by lobbing 104 satellites in a single mission, shattering the Russian record of 37. What was missed out was the intricacy required to do so. ....

Author Sanchit Gupta, who has debuted with a novel based in Kashmir of the early 1990s when militancy peaked and saw mass exodus of Hindu Pandit families, does not think settling migrant Kashmiri Pandits in separate areas in the state is a good idea. ....

One militant was killed by troopers of the Border Security Force (BSF) near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, an official said. ....

The Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the second consecutive day Tuesday stranding scores of vehicles and passengers on the over 300 km long road, an official said. ....