Satish Acharya on... Modi's poll drive.

Inflation based on retail prices soared to 4.88 per cent in November with costlier fuels, fruits, vegetables and eggs stretching household budgets, data released on Tuesday showed.

During the hearing of the plea, seeking a review of the death penalty confirmed by the Supreme Court in May, advocate ML Sharma accused the 'state and police of bribing the victim's mother and father.

The deceased was a Class 12 student and was missing since Tuesday after he left home for school. His was found with handkerchief stuffed in his mouth and both legs tied to the track.

Satish Acharya on... Rahul Ghandi's 'transformation'

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Britain's Vodafone compan to initiate a second arbitration process under an India- UK investment agreement over a long-running tax dispute with the union government.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been able to ward off a Congress onslaught and is all set to retain its bastion of Gujarat, according to the results of the India Today-Axis-My- India exit poll.

The Navy faced long delays in the procurement of heavyweight torpedoes for the Scorpenes, which will be known as Kalvari class.

Satish Acharya on... passing the baton to the new Congress president

'Generational shift' has been the buzzword in the party headquarters over the past few months as the entire party rank and file looks at Rahul to pull it out of a long-standing inertia.

The Income Tax (IT) Department is set to issue notices for suspected tax evasion to over 4 lakh high networth individuals (HNI) across the country who have been trading and investing in Bitcoin.

Satish Acharya on... Rahul Gandhi and mission Karnataka.

A couple in Madya Pradesh, India, had their happy day ruined when a tiger gatecrashed their wedding. Guests were seen screaming and running for cover after it came out of the bushes.

Recent snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal and Uttarakhand has been attracting newly married couples, families and singletons from Delhi and other areas, all hoping to enjoy the cold snap.

The capital is to get its first large colony carrying out 100 per cent of its garbage separation at the household-level in Nizamuddin East.

Images reveal villages continued to be destroyed even as Myanmar and Bangladesh struck a deal last month to return refugees from the ethnic Muslim minority, Human Rights Watch claims.

Dhanika Tripura, from Tripura in India, is suffering with acute lymphocytic leukemia. The girl was healthy before she deteriorated after suffering with itchy eyes just 6 weeks ago.

The saffron party is facing a peculiar situation in the state after the electorate voted for the party, but rejected the chief ministerial candidate Prem Kumar Dhumal to vote for his former aide.

ISIS has claimed it has hacked the US Army and State Department and is sending assassins to employees’ homes in a gruesome new propaganda video.

Manchester City have taken another cheeky dig at rivals Manchester United by trolling Marouane Fellaini on their French language Twitter account.

Posted by his 22-year-old girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez, footballer Cristiano looked delighted to be ringing in his first Christmas with his new family of four children.

Current heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is ready to 'rock and roll' with Tyson Fury whenever the former champion wants to get in the ring with him. Fury has not fought since beating Wladimir Klitschko.

Despite earlier fears about traders supposedly irate over GST, demonetisation and anti-incumbency after 22 years of rule upsetting the BJP applecart in the state, Modi led his party to a nailbiting win.

India has bought a package of the European Meteor missiles along with the Rafales and may prove to be game changers due to their striking capability of close to 150 km, said security forces sources.

Rahul Gandhi and the Congress should take heart in the fight back against odds and prepare for 2019, writes V Narasimhan.

He's one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars.

Single father Chamnan Duangjan, 38, said son cakked Porrames developed behaviour problems after he suffered a severe head injury aged just four in 2012 in Krabi, Thailand.

Researchers at Yale University in Connecticut have found that a mechanism in the brain of all mammals could hold the key to cold immune superhumans in the future.

Austrian contortionist Stefanie Millinger showed off her incredible skills with the help of her assistant, a brown bear called Stephan. Stephanie was a finalist for 'Das Supertalent' in Germany.

The unnamed executive allegedly took responsibility for setbacks at the Punggye-ri nuclear base in North Korea which led to the date of a rocket launch being pushed back.

Two armed terrorists are making their way through a murky underpass holding multiple weapons on the billboard-type banner which carries the slogan: 'Wait for us on your year parties.'

Satish Acharya on... BJP Gujarat losses.

The Government's decision to establish a National Medical Commission (NMC) to replace the Medical Council of India (MCI) has come at the most appropriate juncture.

Six days before Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's (DMRC) Magenta line's take-off, the 'driverless' train crashed through a wall at Kalindi Kunj depot on Tuesday.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has pulled up food regulator FSSAI for recklessly issuing licences to food businesses without complete documents and questioned quality testing.

The uniforms of air stewardesses for AirAsia and Firefly could arouse passengers as they are 'too revealing', according to a Senator Abdullah Mat Yasim in Malaysian Parliament yesterday.

Reporter Bethan McKernan said she had recommended a bar that Ms Dykes, 30, visited before she was abducted in the Lebanese capital, Beirut on Friday night.

Party-goers are always advised not to 'drink and drive' and to use a cab or taxi to return home safe. But going by the shocking findings of a survey, even that may not save you from accidents.

Emma Wren was conceived and frozen 24 years ago in 1992. Tina Gibson, born in 1991, adopted the embryo this year. The embryo was thawed and Emma was born last month.

Eyewitnesses said they heard a blast in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, at about 10.50am yesterday morning - shortly before the scheduled unveiling of the kingdom's budget.

Lewis Hamilton may be receiving a phone call from disgruntled Mercedes chiefs soon, after images of his personalised La Ferrari made their way online.

Cecilia O’Hare, 48, from Coventry, was just three months old when her father Hwang Won boarded a flight from north-east South Korea to the capital Seoul on December 11, 1969.

Watford striker Troy Deeney will serve a four-match suspension after an appeal against his red card in last weekend's 4-1 defeat to Huddersfield Town proved unsuccessful.

Chloe Moretz looked in high spirits as she enjoyed the company of a female pal for a day out in Los Angeles on Monday.

Several exit polls have predicted that Mamata Banerjee will return to power in the state

Of the 44 of the 294 constituencies, the Trinamool had forged ahead in 25

The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC is set for a monumental win in the state, brushing aside the challenge from a Congress-CPI(M) combine

Supporters gathered outside Mamata's house and chanted slogans like Thanda thanda cool, cool; ghore ghore Trinamool'

Despite the Narada sting and Saradha scam, the TMC government sailed through due to its laser-like focus on primary areas

The Congress-Left combine is ahead in 72 seats and BJP, in seven