Asking China to show sensitivity to its concerns, India Friday conveyed its 'serious concerns' over the reported presence of Chinese troops in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and rejected Beijing's labeling of Jammu and Kashmir as 'India-controlled...

A mere 40 percent of the electorate turned out Friday for the elections to the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU), officials...

The authorities in Haryana's Pachkula district Friday rejected the plea of disgraced former state police chief S.P.S. Rathore for parole to supervise the harvesting of crops at his agricultural land near...

Shahsi Tharoor may have lost his ministerial job, but he has not fallen out of favor with the prime minister. Gursharan Kaur, Manmohan Singh's spouse, was among those who came to wish Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar good luck on their marriage, the third for both, at a power-packed reception Friday...

Three more people, including two children, died of swine flu in Orissa Friday, taking the total deaths due to the H1N1 influenza in the state to 22 in the past two months, officials...

The Gujarat High Court Friday rejected the plea of Rubabuddin Sheikh, brother of staged shootout victim Sohrabuddin Sheikh, to be a party to the hearing of former minister Amit Shah's bail...

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday expressed 'great concern' over China terming Jammu and Kashmir 'Indian-controlled...

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Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji, leader of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), has called a 48-hour shutdown from Sep 13 in eight states demanding a probe into what he alleged was a 'cold blooded murder' of party colleague Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad by Andhra Pradesh...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not make it but his wife Gursharan Kaur was among those who attended Shashi Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar's reception here Friday evening after their marriage last month and wished the couple all the...

Indian IT bellwether Wipro has teamed up with global enterprise software products firm Oracle to offer a warranty management and analytics solution for industrial manufacturing, automotive and high-tech industries, the company said late...

Delhi Metro's Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar link, which connects the city's north with its satellite town of Gurgaon in Haryana, was a huge hit among the public Friday with over 32,000 footfalls within a few hours of its...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari said Friday that foodgrain worth Rs.58,000 crore was rotting in India every year because of the Congress party's bad...

The Supreme Court has stayed an Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) verdict directing the central government to treat all the commissioned officers of the Military Nursing Service (MNS) on par with the regular...

The government Friday gave in-principle approval to the Rs.100 crore Swami Vivekananda Values Education Project aimed at encouraging research on...

A teenaged Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district Friday immolated herself after police refused to register her complaint of rape against a youth of her village, officials...

Close on the heels of killing abducted policeman Lucas Tete in Bihar, Maoist militants Friday hacked to death a police constable in the midst of a weekly market in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar...

The Gujarat High Court Friday issued notice to the CBI on the anticipatory bail plea of Yashpal Chudasama, a close aide of former minister Amit Shah, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shoutout...

The Haryana assembly was adjourned for the day Friday - the first day of its monsoon session - following an uproar in the house by opposition parties who were seeking a discussion on the recent floods in the...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Friday taunted Sonia Gandhi over her re-election as Congress president for a fourth successive term and said the post seems to be reserved for the Gandhi...

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday underlined the importance of economic cooperation in a world that is still recovering from the global economic...

The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) said Friday it has put in place an effective and robust programme in place to ensure that the Games are free from dope violations with 1,500 doping control tests, the largest in the Games...

Muslims across India gathered in huge numbers at various mosques to offer the 'Alvida Namaz' on the occasion of the last 'Jumma' of the fasting month of Ramadan on...

To disseminate entrepreneurial spirit in all fields of society, a two-day Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum is being held in Pune on September 3 and 4 that will seek the participation of an entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, politicians and academics from India and...

The Delhi metro reached yet another milestone on Friday with the commencement of the much-awaited 12.53 kilometres long underground corridor linking New Delhi with the satellite city of...

It was a day of desires being fulfilled for residents of south Delhi with the opening of the Metro's Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar section, connecting north Delhi to the satellite town of...

Planning extensive restrictions a day prior to the commencement of the trials for special dedicated lanes for the 2010 Commonwealth Games 2010, the Delhi Traffic Police on Friday appealed to the citizens to adhere to the issued road restrictions to avoid traffic chaos and...

The government should call for an immediate halt to the use of arms by security personnel against stone throwers to end the turmoil in the Kashmir Valley, a group of activists urged at a conference here...

The Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 Organising Committee with the support of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has made robust plans to ensure that Delhi 2010 Games are free from anti-doping rule violations. The programme enacted is a blend of deterrence, detection and...

In an indirect criticism of the state government, a top official of Sesa Goa (SG) - a Vedanta Resources-owned mining company based in Goa - Friday said it was virtually impossible to fight illegal mining in Goa because of 'issues faced in pursuing such...

A massive cleaning up campaign will be initiated in the capital from Monday as part of measures to control the spread of dengue, which has affected over 1,000 people in the city so far, as per a decision taken at a review meeting chaired by union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here...

Politics over mega projects by South Korean steel major POSCO and Vedanta and others intensified further with the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and opposition Congress in Orissa trading charges against each other...

With Delhi Metro now reaching the capital's south, its managing director E. Sreedharan Friday took the opportunity to ride a train on the newly-opened Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar corridor while going back...

The National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) Friday said it will request the anti-doping disciplinary panel to expedite the trial of Indian athletes, who have tested positive in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games, once the outcome of their 'B' samples are known by Saturday...

Sonia Gandhi was Friday re-elected unopposed as the Congress president for a fourth successive term, adding to her record as the longest serving chief of the 125-year-old...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday criticized the process of electing the Congress party president and, without naming Sonia Gandhi, questioned whether the seat had been reserved for only one...

The Cycle Federation of India (CFI) Friday announced a 27-member squad for the Commonwealth Games even as the cyclists are yet to receive their cycles for the Oct 3-14...

A special task force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police Friday arrested four drug smugglers from Dadri town of Greater Noida and seized heroin worth over Rs.4...

The mascot for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Shera, visited the Sanskriti School here on Friday to promote the upcoming mega...

India and the United States joined forces to showcase the strengths of India's HIV/AIDS prevention and control program for a delegation from Ghana, a real-life example of the bilateral partnership on global...

The Australian High Commissioner, Peter Varghese, today launched the third edition of the book 'Love Travel Guides', which is authored by Fiona...

A delegation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders met the Chief Election Commissioner, S Y Quraishi, here on Friday ahead of the Bihar assembly...

Former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah, who has been arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, on Friday asked the Supreme Court to recall its verdict for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe on the grounds of 'prejudice', and levelled allegations of corruption against its judge and the Central...

Pakistan Rangers handed over a second batch of 100 Indian fishermen to India's Border Security Force (BSF) at the Zero Line on Friday afternoon after a court in Pakistan ordered the release 442 fishermen who had completed their prison...

The additional sessions judge, Ahmedabad, A.S. Shah Friday issued notices to the Gujarat and Delhi governments following fears of a staged shootout killing voiced by a kin of an Ahmedabad railway station bomb blast...

Slain policeman Lucas Tete's wife Pyari and three grown up daughters fainted several times in shock on receiving the news that his bullet-riddled body was found in a forest in Bihar...

Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Friday said his government had issued two mining licences only for value addition and renewed leases to eight companies in accordance with its new mining...

Karnataka Friday offered a monthly stipend of Rs.2,000 for vocational training and up to Rs.200,000 as a grant-cum-loan to Maoists who...

With just 30 days to go for the Commonwealth Games, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Friday assured that Delhi was ready to host the sporting event and stressed five mantras -- come out to watch, come out to play, come out to smile, come out to enjoy and come out to welcome - which she said will help make the Games a grand...

The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) Friday threatened to pull out of the peace process in Assam accusing New Delhi of double standards by engaging security forces in harassing supporters engaged in brokering...