diff --git a/recipes/gkt.recipe b/recipes/gkt.recipe
index 6da219cb3a..a5e2d24054 100644
--- a/recipes/gkt.recipe
+++ b/recipes/gkt.recipe
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 
-class Politics(BasicNewsRecipe):
+class GKT(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title = u'General Knowledge Today'
     language = 'en_IN'
     __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
@@ -12,8 +12,13 @@ class Politics(BasicNewsRecipe):
     no_javascript = True
     auto_cleanup = True
 
-    def parse_gkt_section(self, url):
-        root = self.index_to_soup(url, as_tree=True)
+    def parse_gkt_section(self, url, ignore_error=False):
+        try:
+            root = self.index_to_soup(url, as_tree=True)
+        except Exception:
+            if ignore_error:
+                return
+            raise
         for a in root.xpath('//div[@class="post-content"]/h1/a[@href]'):
             title = self.tag_to_string(a).strip()
             url = a.get('href')
@@ -28,12 +33,12 @@ class Politics(BasicNewsRecipe):
         h3 = root.xpath('//h3[@class="widget-title"]')[1]
         for a in h3.getparent().xpath('descendant::li/a[@href]'):
             category = self.tag_to_string(a).strip()
-            if 'PDF' in category:
+            if 'PDF' in category or not category:
                 continue
             url = a.get('href')
             self.log('Found section:', category)
             articles = list(self.parse_gkt_section(url)) + \
-                list(self.parse_gkt_section(url + '/page/2'))
+                list(self.parse_gkt_section(url + '/page/2', ignore_error=True))
             if articles:
                 ans.append((category, articles))
         return ans