India

A BJP MLA has been booked in Jaipur for alleged derogatory remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Rajasthan's Tonk district, police said on Tuesday.

Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Tuesday rubbished opposition charge that he rarely visited his constituency Patna Sahib and insisted that he was a native of Patna and more concerned about the place than anybody else.

Tata Steel in 2013-14 has achieved a record production of Hot Metal and Crude Steel as well as saleable steel, a senior official of the company said on Tuesday.

BJP president Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the rising prices of essential commodities will be controlled in six to 12 months if the party comes to power at the centre.

In the land of nawabs, this election would mean comfort of a different kind -- with kiosks selling cold drinks, wafers and momos at select polling centres.

A five-year-old son of a businessman who was kidnapped from a shopping mall in Bilaspur has been released, police said on Tuesday.

Riots accused BJP candidates Sanjeev Baliyan from Muzaffarnagar and Bharatendu Singh contesting from Bijnore Lok Sabha constituencies today got a shot in the arm with Yoga guru Ramdev campaigning for them.

A 31-year-old Indian national was on Tuesday jailed for 18 weeks in Singapore for his role in the country's worst riot in 40 years, the sixth person to be sentenced in connection with the incident.

Varun Dhawan took his film's co-producer Ekta Kapoor for a bike ride to promote their film 'Main Tera Hero'.

Shraddha Kapoor and Sidharth Malhotra team up together for Mohit Suri's 'The Villian'.

Microsoft named three executives to its cloud, devices and Xbox gaming divisions in one of new Chief Executive Satya Nadella's first management shakeups.

Singing some of his hit numbers like 'Ooh la la la' and 'I am a disco dancer' in his poll campaign, Bappi Lahiri is using his music to seek votes as a BJP candidate.

BJP leaders Saroj Pandey, Kamla Devi Patle and Banshilal Mahto filed their nominations in Raipur on Monday.

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, which supports the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, on Monday claimed that without its support a government could not be formed after the Lok Sabha polls.

There was speculation that Powell would be replaced with a political appointment as an attempt by the Obama administration to "clean the state" with India.

Security personnel have arrested four Maoists, including two carrying rewards on their heads, and seized posters urging boycott of Lok Sabha polls, from separate places in the insurgency-hit Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, official sources said in Raipur o...