India

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi sent out an unusually blunt message to his party colleagues on Thursday, promising to be tougher than his mother in dealing with factionalism and indiscipline. HT reports.

A war of letters appears to have intensified between the centre and the state government even as the centre finally releasing an additional sum of Rs. 1049.33 crore for the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in Uttar Pradesh. Umesh Raghuvanshi reports.

Delhi Metro Rail Corp (DMRC) and Kochi Metro Rail Ltd on Thursday signed an agreement for execution of the first phase of Rs. 5,100-crore Kochi Metro project.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and two others are in the contest for two Rajya Sabha seats from Assam, officials said here Thursday.

Despite steps taken by the railways to ensure better commuter safety, 825 people have already lost their lives on the railway tracks in the first three months of 2013.

Recreational ground areas (RG) on alternate floors might be the most glaring part of the upcoming Lotus Complex in Worli, but the project comprising high-end residential buildings, an IT hub and a luxury hotel also has other components which have raised the hackles of civic officials and architects alike.

A man, locked up in a room in his house for months on the pretext he was suffering from mental illness, hacked to death five members of his own family in a fit of rage.

CPI(M) on Thursday asked West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to respond to allegations made by a senior IPS officer from the state about "wrong practices" in the railway ministry while she was in its in-charge.

Darjeeling Police on Thursday arrested one Mohammad Azad from Khaprail for his alleged links with Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) operatives based in Delhi.