Senior IAS officer Radha Krishna Mathur was on Friday appointed Defence Secretary to succeed Shashikant Sharma who has taken over as Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).

The Brij city of Mathura celebrates his birthday on the eighth day of Ashwin month of the Hindu calendar. Lakhs of people have flocked to Mathura, Vrindavana and Goverdhan to celebrate the diety’s birthday.

With the Janmashtami fever gripping the market this festive season, the desire to dress one’s own Ladoo Gopal is pulling huge crowds to religious markets.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday extended his good wishes to citizens on the occasion of Janmashtami.

Bollywood biggies will add a touch of glamour on Friday to Janmashtami celebrations in Mumbai, where prizes running into crores will be up for grabs.

Actor Saif Ali Khan is planning to do yet another romantic-comedy film, this time with director duo Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK.

The proposal to lower the age of consensual sex from the present 18 years to 16 continued to be the sticking point at the meeting of GoM, set up to look into a new tough law to tackle crimes against women, with Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Krishna Tirath opposing the proposed move.

Uttar Pradesh government said a probe would be conducted into BJP MP Yogi Adityanath's forcible eviction from a train compartment at Ghaziabad railway station when he was on his way to Gorakhpur from Delhi.

The power center in the Maharashtra seems to have shifted from Matoshree (Residence of late Bal Thackeray) to MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s Shivaji Park residence, Krishna Kunj. In recent days, several politicians and industrialists including former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and Ratan Tata visited the Krishna Kunj.

A right wing organisation in Goa has demanded that Karan Johar's latest film Student Of The Year be banned as one of its songs labelled Lord Krishna's consort Radha as 'sexy'. A right wing organisation held demonstrations outside a city multiplex to protest labelling Radha allegedly as 'sexy' in a song from Karan Johar's film 'Student Of The Year'.