Tripura is the CPM’s last bastion. But its crude attempts to smother rivals is leaving the party red-faced, says Ratnadip Choudhury

New Delhi: Coming out bold and united perhaps first time on the issue, top Muslim leaders on Saturday asked the governments, police and intelligence agencies to stop harassment, illegal detention and torture of innocent Muslim youths in the name of fighting terrorism. They also demanded prosecution and punishment of all police and intelligence officials who have been involved in falsely implicating Muslim youths in terror cases. The community leaders passed unanimous resolution on the aforesaid demands and other related issues at the National Convention on Muslim Youth Protection yesterday in New Delhi.

Amicus Curiae Raju Ramachandran had recommended prosecuting Narendra Modi on several grounds. Ashish Khetan decodes the report

Dalit organisations and monks claim that Hindu groups are trying to appropriate a historical Buddhist site in Gulbarga.

The German seems to have been deported to give a face to the foreign hand supposedly funding anti-nuclear protests, writes Jeemon Jacob

Five years after a peace accord marked the end of a decade long civil war, Nepal's political transformation has entered its final phase.

As the Samajwadi Party neared the magic figure to regain power Uttar Pradesh, its state unit president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav will be the Chief Minister.

Prominent Egyptian political activist and first post-revolution female presidential hopeful Bothaina Kamel said that her intention to run stems from her keenness to achieve the goals of the revolution and continue her country’s struggle for freedom and democracy.