Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, the sixth president of India, took oath on July 25, 1977. Since then successive presidents including Giani Zail Singh...

It would be cynical, but not incorrect to say that with the right boxes ticked, a letterbox could well be POROI, and then provided the righ...

An affable man with friends across all divides, Vajpayee was loved and admired even by adversaries.

In 1996, when President Shankar Dayal Sharma invited Atal Bihari Vajpayee to win trust vote as BJP was the single largest party, he gave hi...

Bhattacharya is giving finishing touches to Ansari’s portrait, which will be a part of the gallery at the Parliament House.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the proposal for extension in service of Dr S Jaishankar (IFS 1977) for a period of furt...

Beyond the metros, Nagpur in Maharashtra and Kota in Rajasthan are success stories that have given these cities a space on the education ma...

Baig, who was suffering from blood sugar, died at his home due to sudden heart failure around 9 AM, his younger son Noorul Hasan Baig told ...

After the national anthem was played, the President, whose term comes to an end next July, went around meeting the guests before taking his...

The MoS, External Affairs said that US is developed, as the country had discarded "imperialist practices" like "driving on the left side of...

Aiyar echoed comments by Singh who had said that Rahul prevented his mother from accepting the top job for fear that she would be killed.

President R Venkataraman and, following him, President Shankar Dayal Sharma, chose to call the leader of the single-largest party in the Lo...

He said he tried a lot to talk to the government at the time but no one listened and on December 6, 1992, the masjid was razed.

Ajmal Kasab's execution procedure is believed to be second quickest in the country after the case of Banswara-based Ramchandra alias Raoji.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi will give away the 27th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration to the 75-year-old lyricist and writer...

Then VP Shankar Dayal Sharma was the first choice for PM in 1991.

In fact, elephants will no longer be seen in any zoo or circus in the country after the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) issued a notice on Mond...