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West Bengal Congress president Adhir Chowdhury on Tuesday reprehended the state government's 'vindictive' attitude in denying permission to hold the Congress workers' meeting, to be addressed by Rahul Gandhi, at the venues requested for.

President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to end the bulk collection and storage of phone records by the National Security Agency but allow the government to access the "metadata" when needed, a senior administration official said on Monday.

Nadal crushed Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 6-1, 6-0 to reach the fourth round at Crandon Park.

She, however, added that Modi being the Chief Minister cannot escape the moral responsibility for the riots.

The Election Commission's Static Surveillance team on Monday seized Rs 10 lakh from a person in Patna’s Nalanda district. Additional Chief Electoral Officer R Lakshmanan told  reporters that the person, who was riding a bike, was stopped and searched afte...

BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will address 185 "Bharat Vijay rallies" across the country beginning March 26, a party leader said on Monday.

Trinamool Congress candidate for Darjeeling parliamentary seat and former captain of national football team Baichung Bhutia declared liquid assets worth Rs 6.52 crore in an affidavit filed on Monday.

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Venkaiah Naidu said in Ranchi on Monday that the Congress has become untouchable in the country.

Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Amritsar Amarinder Singh on Monday took a dig at BJP nominee Arun Jaitley for his 'majboor'(helpless)-and-'mazboot'(strong)- leader remarks, saying strong leaders "do not go begging for constituencies to secure their secr...

A couple was arrested after they allegedly hacked a 55-year-old woman following an altercation in Mirzadih under Bodam police station about 30 kms from Jamshedpur in East Singhbhum district on Monday, police said.

Former Bihar minister and Aam Admi Party leader Parveen Amanullah on Monday filed nomination for Patna Sahib Lok Sabha seat amid protests by a section of party workers. Accompanied by senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia, Amanullah filed her nomination after...

Five Naxalites were arrested from a weekly market in the insurgency-hit Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh, police said.

James Rebhorn died on Friday of melanoma at his home in New Jersey, the New York Times reported.

Political and film circles were abuzz with speculations that the actress-turned-activist is keen to contest LS polls from Vijayawada.

Searchers found five more bodies Sunday in the tangled sludge of a massive landslide in rural Washington state, bringing the death toll to at least eight from the wall of debris that swept through a small riverside neighborhood.

The Argentine, whose career was severely disrupted by surgery on his right wrist in 2010, pulled out of the Sony Open last week.