A month after it took power in Delhi after crushing the BJP and the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced on Tuesday that it has decided to go national.
Narendra Modi's religious beliefs helped shape his political views and he has no desire to jettison Hindu nationalist ideology, says a new book and notes that Modi risks alienating a section of his supporters if he allows the more extreme elements of Hindutva to influence governance.
Angry over police's failure to arrest any of the culprits who gang-raped a nun in West Bengal's Nadia district, scores of people on Monday held up visiting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's convoy at Ranaghat and staged a demonstration seeking a CBI probe.
The alleged snooping on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi blew into a political confrontation on Monday, as the Congress charged the BJP with a "police state mentality" while the government dismissed the episode as a "non-issue".
The Rajya Sabha on Monday witnessed a furore over Sharad Yadav's remarks on women's complexion, as sharp words were exchanged between the JD-U leader and Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani.
The nun was brutalised by a gang of bandits inside the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Ranaghat, some 80 km from Kolkata, early Saturday