Early results from Iran's presidential election show a close contest between reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and hard-liner Saeed Jalili, with ...

Around 61 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the polls where reformist Masoud Pezeshkian, 69, hopes for a breakthrough win against a ...

Rabindranath Tagore's poetry is full of powerful mystical imagery, and this is mostly true in the body of work that he categorised under th...

The historic Vaikom struggle for social justice and against untouchability was the nation's pioneering movement that inspired the whole cou...

The apex body and KDA, a separate amalgam of socio-religious, political and youth organisations, are jointly spearheading a campaign to pre...

With the onset of tourism in the Leh valley, the locals started getting influenced by the architecture followed in the cities and town. Soo...

The proposal was placed before a committee of linguistic experts, which approved it, and now it is under the consideration of the cultural ...

I think none is above the Supreme Court. The justice which will be delivered after hearing will be final, said Asok Kumar Ganguly.

Karunanidhi became an ardent follower of Dravidian ideologue CN Annadurai and joined the DMK when the latter founded it in 1949.

Mayawati said that the roots of the party movement were deep in Maharashtra and exhorted workers to convert it into electoral success

Deng Xiaoping, who had overturned Mao Zedong's rigid Communist ideology, opened China to outside world in 1978 & pursued economic reforms

Reformist monk Maduluwawe Sobhitha said given an opportunity, he is ready to fight Rajapaksa as the common opposition candidate.

Dabholkar's children have declared that his life mission against superstition will be resurrected with a month-long drive starting Septembe...

Hazare will meet his new Core Committee on Nov 24 and has invited several eminent persons like former Army chief Gen V K Singh.

Anna Hazare's movement is "politically coloured" and it is wrong to credit him for drawing people's attention towards corruption.

Social activist Anna Hazare, who entered the second day of his indefinite fast, today slammed the Congress for "misleading" the people.

Iranians shouted "independence, liberty, Islamic republic" during the revolution which toppled the US-backed monarchy, but hopes for freedo...