India

The Bihar government on Tuesday rued that it was unable to meet the growing demands for shelter by the poor and accused the Centre of discrimination against it by slashing its quota for houses under the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) for 2014-15.

With monsoon arriving in full swing in the state, the agriculture department officials have been directed to coordinate with farmers and help them with agriculture-related suggestions through mobile SMS.

Athletics Federation of India has decided to prune down the number of track and field participants in the upcoming Glasgow Commonwealth Games from the original 41 to 33.

Appearing before a five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi opposed the petition and said that the issue should be left for the legislative body to decide.

According to the Election Commission, half of the 13,754 candidates are women.

In his appeal, he stressed that the brutal aggression witnessed in Gaza had been preceded by an inhuman siege, a crime that must be ended immediately.

The dismissed Excise and Taxation Officer (ETO) Baljinder Singh was recruited in 2012 and was still under probation.

US government standards for software may enable spying by the National Security Agency through widely used coding formulas that should be jettisoned.

Madani thanked God for getting him one-month bail as he was suffering from various ailments.

The new show, 'Taaki Ganga Bahti Rahe' maps the journey of the Ganga from its source at Gangotri to its culmination at Gangasagar.

Police said they had told the protesters that no protest would be allowed in the high-security zone where Section 144 also remains in force.

Justice Lodha said the practice of increased working hours of courts abruptly ended once he moved out of the Patna High Court.

Former Union minister and senior Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma on Monday said that there was a possibility of mid-term polls taking place in Uttar Pradesh as the BJP after its massive win in the Lok Sabha elections was "trying to destabilise" the Akhi...

Narendra Modi said that India looks forward to the BRICS initiative for setting up the New Development Bank and Contingent Reserve Arrangement.

The leaders visited the Sri Ujjaini Mahankali temple which is frequented by thousands of devotees during the festival.

The LG G3 has a 5.5-inch Quad HD display with 538ppi, which the company says is four times the resolution of HD and almost two times higher resolution than a full HD display.