The Indian National Congress, which celebrates its 136th foundation day on Monday, is struggling to preserve its legacy at a time it is getting battered every day even on the question of its patriotis...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to examine a plea for taking action against 17 ashrams being run by “fake babas” who are allegedly sexually exploiting women devotees and fo...

The steel city will soon host a school that will ensure equal education opportunities for children of persons with leprosy.Governor Droupadi Murmu on Saturday laid the foundation stone of Hi-Tech High...

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday called the attack on students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University a “fascist surgical strike” and exhorted students to fight together to oust the Nar...

Nagaland is one of only three states of the Indian Union that I have not visited. I had planned to go there next February, at the invitation of Natwar Thakkar, a social worker whom I had corresponded ...

US President Donald Trump and his statuesque wife Melania have one thing in common and that was on show at the Sabarmati Ashram: they both have jagged, almost indecipherable signatures, that are a del...

US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania on Monday tried their hands at spinning the charkha (spinning wheel) at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad.Accompanied by Prime Minister Narendra Mod...

A brief halt at the Sabarmati Ashram was pencilled into President Donald Trump’s Ahmedabad schedule three hours before he departed from Washington for his 36-hour India visit, ending the uncertainty...

The Sidi Saiyyed Mosque — jaaliwali masjid to the aam Amdavaadi — is one of Ahmedabad’s many attractions. Visitors to the city may not be aware that the equally ornate mansion — a Baroque beau...

The authorities of Mahatma Gandhi’s Sevagram ashram in Maharashtra’s Wardha have refused to grant permission to the Congress to hold a programme there on October 2 on the ground that political act...