India

Controversial UP legislator Mukhtar Ansari was on Saturday released on custody parole from Central Jail in Agra for a day to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections.

The Election Commission has been requested by the CEO of West Bengal that one additional general observer be provided as a confidence building measure for each of the 17 Lok Sabha constituencies which would go to polls in the last phase on May 12.

About 50 people, including a top police officer and two media persons, were injured in a communal clash in Meerut on Saturday, police said.

Following the March launch of a 5.5 inch-screen phablet, Xiaomi will next release its first tablet, fitted with a 7.9 inch screen. It will likely be called the MiPad.

The Kerala health department is on high alert after increasing number of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) cases were reported in Saudi Arabia.

Shanti Gandhi, a great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, isn't going to seek a second term for a Kansas House seat he won in 2012 and instead plans to endorse his Republican primary rival Dick Jones.

Videocon had earlier said its will follow strategy to keep prices of telecom services 20-25 per cent lower than competition.

Thirteen people, including four children, were killed and three others seriously injured when a local train rammed into a jeep at an unmanned railway crossing in Kothipar area on Friday.

BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Thursday took blessings from local priests and elders here after an over five-hour drive-through in this temple town following cancellation of a rally and a Ganga pujan programme.

A petition was filed in Allahabad High Court on Thursday seeking action against BJP leader Amit Shah for his statement in which he had described Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh as a "haven for terrorists".

The SC had directed the CVC to probe files pertaining to 24 coal scam cases in which the CBI has concluded the investigation.

Sania Mirza and Cara Black gave a scare to top seeds Su-Wei Hsieh and Shuai Peng before losing the women's doubles quarterfinal.

A local court has convicted a man of raping his handicapped minor niece and sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment.

62 per cent of the electorate across the state have cast their votes on Wednesday in five Lok Sabha seats, Chief Election Officer Radha Raturi said.

Narendra Modi on Wednesday claimed that the electorate of Amethi have destroyed the pride of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi and forced the latter to go around with folded hands in the constituency which he would otherwise not visit in five years.

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