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Kochi: A Jacobite parish in Kerala on Sunday refused to bury the maternal grandmother of Priyanka Chopra, a leading actress of Bollywood. Madhu Jyotsana Akhauri had died in Mumbai on June 3, aged 94. She was a freedom fighter, social activist and a former legislator. Born Mary John in St...

A senior CPI-M leader and former Member of Parliament of India has said the church has been used by various external agencies for the pumping in of funds for organizing militancy and separatist movements in Tripura. Khagen Das was speaking with reference to the militant activities and the...

NEW DELHI: In what could be a game-changing arms acquisition, India is planning to acquire the new-generation Russian S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems that can destroy incoming hostile aircraft, stealth fighters, missiles and drones at ranges of up to 400-km. Sources say the defence...

Delhi has become the latest destination for a large number of Iraqis who have managed to escape the dreaded Islamic State (IS) terrorists in their home country. A large section of these Iraqis are applying to the office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Delhi, seeking...

Now that the opposition has decided to bring up the issue of re-conversions, it would also do well if it debated at length the inflow of money amounting to Rs 10,500 crore that is pumped in every year to Christian missionaries to convert people. As has been noted by Phillip Goldberg, the author...

New Delhi, Nov. 1: India and Syria are quietly preparing to swap visits by their internal security chiefs, their first since the emergence of the Islamic State. Syria has invited national security adviser Ajit Doval to visit Damascus and its own interior minister Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar will...

Baghdad/Mumbai: Months after reports claimed that four Indians `enrolled` themselves in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Sunni militant group in Iraq on its website Wednesday claimed that one of the youngsters from Mumbai has been killed. Aarif Majid was one of the four persons...

Ramanathapuram: Two men have been arrested in Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu for suspected links with the Sunni militant group ISIS after a photo showing them sporting T-shirts that carried the group's emblem went viral on social media. The duo allegedly distributed the T-shirts to the 24 other...

The Italian prosecutors have produced an explosive note in court last week to highlight the role of middleman Christian Michel in the VVIP chopper deal. The 2008 note between the middleman and AgustaWestland has mentioned the names of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh...

Border love row: Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda says she posted messages of Pak journo Mehr on his Twitter handle NEW DELHI: Shashi Tharoor, junior minister for HR, found himself at the centre of an unseemly controversy Wednesday evening after intimate messages, supposedly sent to him by a...

New Delhi: Tarun Tejpal has recused himself for six months as the Editor-in-Chief of Tehelka, after being accused of sexual assault by a woman journalist in the magazine. A person close to the journalist spoke to NDTV and said it was an act of "grave sexual misconduct." "It happened not once...

MUZAFFARNAGAR: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday came face to face with the communal divide in western Uttar Pradesh, and also saw their visit to the riot-hit areas itself becoming a point of discord. Within hours of...

New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The BJP-led NDA has a clear edge over the UPA in terms of support base if Lok Sabha polls were held now and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's performance is rated below that of his government, says a opinion survey released Friday. According to the latest survey...

Syria's ambassador to India has said that "Indian fighters" are waging "Islamic jihad" against President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria alongside fighters from Afghanistan and Chechnya. Ambassador Riad Kamel Abbas told The Indian Express Wednesday that some of these Indian nationals had...

On a complaint by a Sikh group, a US federal court has issued summons against Congress party president Sonia Gandhi for shielding party officials allegedly involved in inciting attacks on Sikhs in November 1984, an attorney said. In a class action suit filed Tuesday before the district court...

First, Congress leaders Raj Babbar and Rasheed Masood mocked the poor by their Rs 12 and Rs 5 for a meal remarks. Now, it's none other than the Gandhi scion who has come out with his own, bizarre definition of poverty. Speaking at a function in Allahabad on Monday, Rahul Gandhi stirred the...

New Delhi, Jul 28: The Defence Ministry is probing allegations of irregularity involving a top retired Army official in the Rs 3,000 crore deal to procure 145 ultra-light howitzers from the US under an inter-governmental agreement. The M-777 howitzers are being procured by the Army...

A poem written by an al Qaeda leader -- while serving sentence at the famous Guantanamo Bay prison – has found its way to the syllabus for third semester degree students of Calicut University in one of the worst educational howlers in the country, triggering a storm of protests in Kerala...

Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya has complained that Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir — who retires on July 18 — blocked his elevation to the Supreme Court earlier this year because, as a member of the collegium of the Calcutta High Court, he had opposed the...

NEW DELHI: Theories suggesting a political conspiracy in the DarbhaGhati massacre, where Naxals killed 29 people from a Congress cavalcade have not yet been ruled out by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which is investigating the attack. The agency has even put a 'padayatra' that former...