India

There are demands from the Shiv Sena to scrap Metro III as it involves shifting residents from Girgaum and Kalbadevi in south Mumbai which are predominantly Marathi majority areas.

Kempegowda international airport in this tech hub registered a record 15 million passengers arriving and departing in this fiscal year (2014-15).

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed promised to streamline the distribution of ration in the state and assured that the government will take up the issue on priority basis.

Total prohibition or complete liberalisation of liquor was not its policy, the state government told the Kerala High Court.

"Finances for this crucial highway project, which has already been delayed, have been arranged. Eighty-five per cent of the work has been done and the project would be completed by June this year," he said.

"The auction has concluded," an official source said. The auction for airwaves in four bands ended after 115 rounds of bidding, a source said. The total value of bids stood at Rs 1,09,874 crore.

Pranab Kumar Gogoi said he will constitute a House Committee to examine alleged irregularities in inviting tenders from contractors by the Public Works Department.

The Supreme Court has said it could ask a receiver to auction Sahara's assets if it failed to raise bail.

The highest court in the land has struck down the draconian Section 66A of the IT Act thereby rendering a huge boost to free speech online.

According to a senior government official, the project is in the initial stage and is being drafted by the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUISB).

The DMK chief M Karunanidhi has asked the ruling AIADMK to call for total bandh on March 28.

Three men were caught on CCTV while hurling stones into the compound of the St George Catholic Church.

There can be nothing worse for the memory of an officer like DK Ravi than this political tug-of-war being played out right now.

China's special representative, Yang Jiechi, will visit India from Sunday until Tuesday for the eighteenth round of boundary talks, India's foreign ministry said in a statement.

The militants were killed when Pakistani military jets targeted hideouts of banned outfits, The Dawn online reported citing security forces.

"There are lot of people who feel their Christian identity is being questioned. Indian Christian identity is being questioned, and it gives certain sense of sadness," Cardinal Baselios Cleemis said in an interview.