India

Former CAG Vinod Rai was on Sunday appointed first Chairman of the Banks Board Bureau, which will advise the government on top-level appointments at public sector lenders.

Ashutosh, who is arrested JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar's predecessor, was allowed to leave after questioning.

Anant is among the five students police were looking for in connection with a sedition case over an event on campus against the hanging of Afzal Guru.

Transgenders in Maharashtra are becoming more aware of their electoral rights with Thane district registering the maximum voters from the community.

The JeM had claimed responsibility for the January 2 cross-border terror attack on the Pathankot Indian Air Force base that claimed the lives of seven Indian security personnel.

Prithvi Sridhar who had moved from Bangalore in 2013 to study engineering at the university's prestigious Queens' College was forced to take a gap year as a result of the accusation in November 2014, Cambridge Crown Court was told this week.

During winter, vehicles contribute up to 25 per cent of PM 2.5 emissions, while 26 per cent comes from biomass burning.

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said "resources of Railways are constantly dwindling" as they are "not decided in the most optimum manner".

The jailed students leader alleged that a doctored video, which seeks to superimpose utterances that may have been made elsewhere by others, was being circulated to falsely implicate him in the case.

According to the Delhi Police report, accessed by CNN-IBN, the police has backed its claims on the basis of television footage.

The five students, Umar Khalid (in picture), Anirban Bhattacharya, JNUSU General Secretary Rama Naga, Ashutosh Kumar and Anant Prakash, accused of sedition said they were ready to be arrested even as the university authorities were undecided on asking the...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said a person not getting opportunity only because of his birth in a particular caste should not happen.