In a video, Union minister Smriti Irani criticised the Congress party for forgetting to pay tribute to Swami Vivekananda when the party's ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ commenced in Kanyakumari last week. She accused Congress MP Rahul Gandhi of finding the gesture of paying respect “unacceptable”.

A sleeper coach and three general coaches of the Visakhapatnam-Kirandul passenger special train derailed soon after passing the Jeypore station in Odisha’s Koraput district on Monday afternoon

India said its consistent view on peace and reconciliation in the neighbouring island nation has been been for a political settlement within the framework of an United Sri Lanka, ensuring justice, peace, equality and dignity for the Tamil living there.

The Soviet rocket Lunik II has hit the moon, according to officials of the Moscow planetarium

The seven-day debate on the Press Laws Bill came to a close today in Parliament with a powerful two-hour defence of the measure by the Home Minister, Mr Rajagopalachari, assuring the Press that it is thee in every sense of the term but at the same time warning it that certain safeguards are necessary against “ abuse of freedom and the degeneration of freedom into licence for scurrility and incitement to chaos.”

“These defence forces, which are 1 one of the greatest achievements in the Dominion’s short history, also symbolize her greatest tragedy.”

The Government of India announced this evening that “they have decided to accord recognition to the Government of Israel.”

The jailbreaker narrowly escaped a mob lynching on Sunday in Meghalaya’s West Jaintia Hills district, where four others who escaped with him were thrashed to death

Soon after, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh hit back at the “silly criticism” and asked the CPI(M) to do its homework before coming to such conclusions.