Four people who were carrying unlicensed weapons and planning to rob a trader were arrested in this Uttar Pradesh town...

Following is the scoreboard of the Delhi Daredevils innings against Kings XI Punjab in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here that was reduced to 11 overs a side after rain truncated play Saturday...

Political violence once again raised its ugly head in Andhra Pradesh claiming nine lives...

Five people were killed and four injured in two road accidents in Lucknow Saturday, police...

Kolkata Knight Riders were contemplating legal action against the Pakistani newspaper Nation for its report saying fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was questioned at Karachi airport for allegedly carrying a large number of...

The Rajasthan government has announced a package of Rs.2.82 billion for the upliftment of the Gujjar community, which has been demanding tribal status for better educational and job...

A senior judicial magistrate in Gujarat has been suspended for misconduct, an official said here...

Mumbai airport has been voted the best airport in India in a survey conducted by the Airport International Council, a body of operators who collectively manage over 1,600 airports...

Delhi Daredevils scored 118 runs for the loss of four wickets in their rain-truncated Indian Premier League (IPL) match with Kings XI Punjab here Saturday...

Top seed Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei clinched the $50,000 SAIL Open ATP challenger title, defeating American Brendan Evans 5-7,7-6 (5),6-3 at the DLTA complex here...

A city court Saturday granted bail to a man accused in a 2004 murder of two men who were reportedly in a homosexual...

At least 35 out of 44 Congress legislators in Punjab Saturday submitted their resignations to state Congress president Rajinder Kaur Bhattal to protest against 'the fear instilled among voters' by the ruling Akali Dal in the recently concluded local body...

Rajasthan Royals continued their winning spree and became the first team in the Indian Premier League (IPL) to enter the semi-finals as they thrashed bottom placed Bangalore Royal Challengers by 65 runs at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here...

Maoist rebels killed a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Lohardagga district of Jharkhand, the police said here...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has decided to open 10 mediation centres in 10 districts in each of the two states promote alternate dispute resolution mechanism for speedy delivery of...

Making a forceful pitch for a separate authority to deal with crimes threatening the country's security, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said several states showed reluctance to surrender power to such an...

Lucknow, May 17, 2008 (IANS) Lucknow Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bal Mukund Saturday directed Senior Superintendent of Police Akhil Kumar to register a case against the superintendent of police (west), the circle officer of Chowk and an inspector in Wazirganj in connection with the alleged police assault on lawyers at the Uttar Pradesh capital...

The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd (HSBC) is set to acquire through its group subsidiaries a major stake in India's leading retail brokerage house IL&FS Investsmart Ltd...

First, it was information technology, then came biotechnology and now Pune's heavyweights want to make a mark in the animation...

Three members of a family were killed and three injured when a fire broke out in a thatched house in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, a police official said...

The murder of Noida girl Aarushi Talwar turned into a whodunit Saturday as the original suspect, the family's domestic help, was found dead on the terrace of their house with his throat slit in the same manner as the first...

A youth committed suicide in west Delhi after failing to clear the civil services examinations, the police said...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati Saturday campaigned for their party candidates in north Karnataka ahead of the third and final phase of assembly elections May...

India Saturday sent an air force IL-76 plane with 50 medical personnel including paramedics to help relief work in cyclone-hit...

The Delhi Traffic Police Saturday conducted a special drive and fined 295 people for dangerous driving, a senior police official...

Lenovo, Chinese manufacturer of PCs and partner of the Beijing Olympic torch relay, Saturday launched its second phase of three online auctions in India as part of the countdown to the...

Many foreign airlines are now taking off from Indian airports during daylight hours, a government official said...

A city court Saturday issued one more warrant for gangster Brijesh Singh seeking his appearance June 3 for trial in an extortion...

Central Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss Saturday defended the government's decision to close India's three prime vaccine production facilities and denied charges that the move would create shortage of vaccines in the...

After trundling through Uttar Pradesh's electricity-starved dark countryside, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi made a surprise visit to a predominantly Dalit hamlet in his Amethi parliamentary constituency where some 60 women from half a dozen villages were holding a...

The Delhi Police Saturday claimed to have solved the murder of former Indian Airlines employee B.D. Sharma, found dead Thursday, by arresting his...

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and decided to bat against Kings XI Punjab in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Feroze Shah Kotla stadium here...

Residents in the capital got no respite from the sizzling sun till Saturday evening as the mercury remained one degree above normal. It was far more pleasant in the northeast and in southern India, where there were traces of...

Bihar's Transport Minister Ramanand Prasad Singh resigned from his post Saturday, a day after it was known that he was named in a corruption...

Madhya Pradesh lawmaker and member of a state tiger conservation body Darbu Singh Uike has alleged that corrupt officials have siphoned off millions meant for the conservation of tigers in the state's Kanha National...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presented an autographed copy of his book 'Courage: Eight Portraits' to Dawoodi Bohra spiritual head Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin in...

An Indian Air Force (IAF) plane carrying relief supplies Saturday landed in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, which was hit by a devastating earthquake...

The Orissa government Saturday announced a compensation of Rs.155,000 each for the families of the seven people who were electrocuted in Dhenkanal district late Friday night, an official...

Two children were killed and one injured in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh Saturday when the earth caved in as they were playing by a lake, a police official...

The Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya, Buddhism's holiest shrine, has got a governing panel after a gap of eight...

Terming its prize scheme on more talk-time usage a case of 'corporate greed', a consumer court has imposed a fine of Rs.5 million on leading mobile service provider Vodafone...

After their easy win over Kolkata Knight Riders Friday night, Mumbai Indians are back in the reckoning for a semi-final spot in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and will have a chance to strengthen their claim when they take on Deccan Chargers here...

Customs officials at the Calicut international airport seized 19.45 kg of ketamine, a narcotic substance, from a passenger Saturday. The drug consignment is estimated to be worth Rs.20 million in the international market, a customs official...

Mumbai, May 17(IANS) Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal, actress Mumtaz and music maestro A.R. Rahman will be honoured by the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) for their contribution to Indian cinema at a ceremony in Bangkok next...

Demanding stronger response and accountability towards HIV/AIDS patients, activists, NGOs and the patients themselves will come together in 30 countries, including India, to observe the Global AIDS action week beginning...

A Nigerian was detained Saturday when he was moving suspiciously near a high security military cantonment here, police...

Manufacturers of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) are reeling from high inflation as their input costs have gone up while their sales have stagnated, says a leading industry...

The Uttar Pradesh government ordered a probe Saturday after a woman in the final stages of labour was denied entry into a hospital here and gave birth...

A team of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) started random tests of the players in the Indian Premier League (IPL) from...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday wished speedy recovery to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi, who has been admitted to a Chennai hospital after he complained of severe neck and back...