A police constable on duty at a wireless station at Koorachundu, some 60 km from here, was killed and another policeman was injured in lightning Thursday...

In yet another case of `street justice' in Bihar, a suspected thief was lynched by a mob in Siwan district, the police said...

About 500 workers of the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) attempting to pray in a disused 200-year-old mosque inside the fort here were arrested Friday, Vellore District Collector D.P. Yadav...

Yash Raj Films has once again got embroiled in a controversy over the title of its forthcoming movie 'Thoda Pyaar, Thoda Magic,' which has Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji in lead...

The Supreme Court Friday issued notices to the Bihar government on two petitions challenging its power to appeal against the acquittal of Railways Minister Lalu Prasad in a disproportionate assets...

Karnataka goes to polls from Saturday to elect a 224-seat assembly. But very few are considered key...

The government Friday paved the way for greater flow of investments between India and Latvia granting approval to the inking of a bilateral investment promotion protection...

Sony Entertainment TV, which has been slapped with a legal notice by a Mumbai-based woman who was inundated with calls by actor Aman Varma's fans, has refuted reports that she has demanded Rs.10 million as...

In order to arrest the increasing dropout rate from schools after class 8, the government Friday decided to allocate Rs.30.04 billion as scholarship to poor...

The Indian Premier League (IPL) Friday penalised the Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders for not completing their overs in the stipulated time in the rain-curtailed match at the Eden Gardens...

The Indian equities market continued to trade flat early Friday afternoon trade due to selling pressure across key sectors spurred by the international oil prices notching a new high - almost $125 per...

A Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activist was shot dead Friday at a political rally in West Midnapore district of West...

Forty-one tribal separatists along with families have surrendered to the authorities in Tripura, officials said...

India's challenge ended in the Rome Masters tennis tournament as both Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, playing with their respective partners, failed to qualify for the quarterfinals of the doubles...

The stage is set for a battle of nerves Saturday between an upbeat Congress and a defensive Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) in the first phase of Karnataka election where the fortunes of about 950 candidates will be decided by 17.3 million voters in 89 constituencies across 11 southern...

Angry passengers held up the Jodhpur-Bangaluru Express at Miraj, near here, Friday following a daytime robbery in a crowded...

The National Aviation Company India Ltd (NACIL), formed after the merger of Air India and Indian, is forming strategies to enhance the airline's operations and turn it into a profitable...

The 90 years between the India's first war of independence in 1857 and the country attaining freedom in 1947 will come alive in a costume drama in...

The Indian Navy will place an order for another aircraft carrier with the Cochin Shipyard, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta said here...

Bangalore Royal Challengers, who slumped to their sixth defeat in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Thursday night, has again slid to the bottom of the IPL...

Increased surveillance of Tamil Nadu's southeastern coast have resulted in the arrest of two suspected terrorists and the seizure early Friday of a boat laden with contraband ammunition bound for northern Sri Lanka, police...

Ten years ago, India's bomb makers played a little game of deception in the scorching deserts of Pokhran in...

Protesting the ongoing violence in Nandigram, allegedly by cadres of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has staged a demonstration inside the office of East Midnapore Police Superintendent S.S....

Ahmedabad, May 9(IANS) Two people have been arrested here for circulating fake notes worth Rs.70,000, police said...

Bird flu has resurfaced in Darjeeling district in eastern India, West Bengal's Animal Resources Development (ARD) Minister Anisur Rehaman confirmed...

The villagers of Dumka, who are opposing the setting up of a power plant that threatens to take away their land, have decided to boycott Jharkhand Agriculture Minister Nalin Soren and seven others who are backing the...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) began a probe into the kidnapping of Akash Pandey, a school student, from Patna last year, investigating officials said...

Jammu, May 9 ( IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) Friday claimed to have thwarted a infiltration bid from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba...

King's XI Punjab, on a roll with five consecutive victories and leading the pack on the leaderboard, face up to the Chennai Super Kings, a team that is on the mend after suffering a trough in their fortunes in the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament match here...

Mumbai May 9 (IANS) India's leading cement manufacturing firm Associated Cement Companies (ACC) has decided to freeze prices for the next two to three...

India fast bowler Lakshmipathy Balaji is back after a stress fracture kept him out of the game for two...

The Jharkhand government is going to give haircuts to students in state-run...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday called for a daylong shutdown in Kerala's Chittur area after a party activist was killed while returning from a temple...

Model Anushka Sharma will play Shah Rukh Khan's leading lady in 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi', which is being directed by Aditya...

Jalandhar/He may not have visited his adopted home state Punjab yet but the square jawed wrestler Dalip Singh Rana, or The Great Khali as he is known all over the globe, is already selling on the...

Dozens of villagers in Orissa's Kendrapada district are frantic as they wait to hear from their relatives who work in cyclone-hit...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has unearthed a Rs.240 million loan scam in the Sector 17 branch of the Punjab National Bank (PNB)...

A Saudi national has been arrested from Jammu and Kashmir's frontier district of Kupwara, police here...

In an attempt to open up mainstream higher education in India to madrassa students, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has decided to accredit several Islamic seminaries across the...

Mumbai May 9 (IANS) The Indian equities markets opened in the negative zone Friday, tracking weak markets elsewhere in...

Following is the sports schedule for May 9,...

Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), which operates mines in Jharkhand and West Bengal, will invest Rs.12 billion in equipment by 2011-12 as part of its revival strategy, says a top company...

The water crisis in the Indian capital is set to take a turn for the worse in the long term, leading perhaps to more water-related conflicts. In 2021, the city will face a deficit of over 1,000 million litres per day (MLD) - higher than the current figure of around 900...

As Myanmar copes with the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis, meteorologists from South and Southeast Asia are ready with the name of the next cyclone to hit the region - one called...

A Jaipur-based mechanical engineer and an architect from Ahmedabad have jointly developed a fuel free passive cooling system for...

Some call him a passionate activist, crusading against health hazards, while others allege he is publicity hungry and wastes time on trivial matters. But one thing is for certain - Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss is seldom out of...

Everyone agrees that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has produced a fine spectacle but disagrees on whether it is good or bad for cricket. Film star brand ambassadors like Akshay Kumar and owners like Shah Rukh Khan and Preeti Zinta, the Washington Redskin cheerleaders and others provide the glamour and glitz to the three-hour cricket spectacle staged in the arena. Will the IPL produce a Roman spectacle, a fierce locally held identity that could spark hooliganism of the European football league variety, or a more diffuse community that spurs qualities of good...

A major hospital in Jharkhand's capital is facing a shortage of anti-rabies vaccine at a time when the city records around 200 dog bite cases every...

On a recent visit to Punjab for a concert, music composer Pritam Chakraborty was taken aback to see posters calling him 'Pritam...

'Taare Zameen Par' (TZP) writer Amol Gupte has moved on from painting and Aamir Khan to do a film on roller-skating and wants Salman Khan to play the...