Saying “let there be a fair trial,” the Supreme Court on Friday directed Congress president Sonia Gandhi, vice-president Rahul Gandhi and other accused party leaders to face criminal proceedings in the National Herald case, but exempted them from court app ....

A comprehensive report of the Director General of Income Tax (Intelligence and Criminal Investigation) accessed by The Hindu shows more and more prominent business houses, including diamond traders, steel magnates and the country’s leading pharma companies coming ....

After successfully conducting the 26/11 attacks in 2008, Headley came back to India in March 2009 as directed by senior Al-Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri. He said, “I met Kashmiri in February 2009 and he told me to visit India again to carry out terrorist activ ....

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao sought a Central grant of Rs. 30,571 crore for implementing Mission Kakatiya and Mission Bhagiratha as part of a special development package for Telangana which was already sanctioned by NITI Aayog. Mr. Rao made this request ....

The Obama administration on Saturday notified the U.S. Congress of its decision to sell eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan worth nearly $ 700 million, notwithstanding American lawmakers’ demand for stopping the proposed sale. Despite mounting opposition from influ ....

The LeJ's Naeem Bokhari and Sabir Khan, as well as Farooq Bhatti, deputy chief of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), were captured by Pakistani forces in recent raids, Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa told a press conference on Friday. The 97 men had been i ....

 Major powers agreed on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged Syrian towns, but failed to secure a complete ceasefire or an end to Russian bombing. Following a marathon meeting in Mu ....

The new tough stance follows South Korea’s decision to shut down an inter—Korean factory park that had been the rival Koreas’ last major symbol of cooperation, but that Seoul said had been used by North Korea to fund its nuclear and missile programs. N ....

Aimed at designing a reconciliation mechanism in the post-civil war Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera on Friday appealed to the victims on both sides of the divide to participate in a consultation process. A task force, comprising 11 citizens, has been cons ....

On the final day of a two-day meeting of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football, favourites Gianni Infantino of Switzerland and Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa of Bahrain, pitched their candidacies on Friday along with Franc ....