Noting that caste is a reality in India, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh Thursday supported a caste-based census, the demand for which has been made by the opposition in parliament, with some members from the treasury benches also supporting this.

Activists of the youth and students wings of Tripura's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday began a week-long protest here against corruption in the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC).

A Maoist activist involved in the killing of a primary school headmaster in West Bengal's West Midnapore district was arrested Thursday evening, police said.

The best of champagnes and sparkling wines in the sky among international airlines' business class are served by India's private carrier Jet Airways, a competition has revealed.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday faced the anger of the relatives of the youth injured in the recent protests as he came to a hospital here to visit them

Prominent Shia scholar and cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawaad Thursday sprung a surprise by coming out in support of the erstwhile royal of Mahmoodabad who was suddenly deprived of his properties that he had retrieved after fighting a 32-year-long court battle.

At least 16 members of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist were arrested Thursday from Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, police said.

The West Bengal government is planning to declare eight districts as drought-affected or on the verge of facing a drought after reviewing the situation till the second week of this month, a senior minister said Thursday.

The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the central government to award special pension to the 85-year-old widow of an army man who was denied pension benefits by the army for the last 56 years.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Thursday urged Rajya Sabha members to push their state governments for a goods and services tax (GST) regime, a day afer the states rejected the centre's proposal for a
constitutional amendment to introduce the measure.