The Allahabad High Court on Thursday acquitted Rajesh and Nupur Talwar and quashed their conviction in the murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. Stating that there was no cogent evidence that the Aarushi's parents are guilty of the murders, the court said the...

The Indian government's Aadhaar card scheme, which has enrolled more than 1 billion people, has helped the exchequer save about $9 billion by eliminating fraud in beneficiary lists, its architect Nandan Nilekani has said. It has really been a bipartisan thing, Nilekani said while participating...

Film actor Anupam Kher was appointed the new chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), replacing Gajendra Chauhan. In 2015, FTII students made an unprecedented protest against Chauhan's "arbitrary" and "political" appointment, mainly because he was a BJP member....

The alleged mastermind of the Panchkula mayhem, Honeypreet Insaan confessed to the SIT that she had prepared the guide maps of Panchkula, where the violence erupted after Gurmeet Ram Rahim's conviction. She also gave leads on three other absconding accomplices during the investigation. ...

Continuing her spirit of humanitarianism, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has come to the aid of a sick Pakistani national by giving him a medical visa for his liver transplant surgery in India. Swaraj has accorded her nod in the past to many Pakistani nationals seeking...