The Gujarat special operations police forces have conducted searches in 35 different cyber cafes in Ahmedabad in the wake the Jaipur blasts....

Three days after a man and his little daughter died after being thrown out of a moving bus for paying less fare, the Orissa government has decided to crack down on private bus operators if they misbehave with...

Six militants of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) group were killed by security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday, police...

Maoist guerrillas have demolished at least seven school buildings in Chhattisgarh's tribal dominated areas in the last three days, a police official said...

Five members of a family, including a baby, were killed and three injured when a fire broke out in a house in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh, a police official said...

Bird flu has been detected in West Bengal's Darjeeling district where culling of thousands of poultry will begin Sunday in five affected villages, an official...

Nepalese Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai is coming to Kolkata in early June. Interestingly, it is not the ruling Left Front but the Naxalites who are hosting...

Eight people, including a leader of the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and his brother, were killed when country-made bombs they were allegedly carrying in their car exploded in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool district Saturday. TDP supporters termed it a pre-meditated attack by...

A man suspected to have links with the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was detained early Saturday in Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan for his suspected links to the serial bombings in Jaipur, police sources...

Tamil Nadu is doing well on the wind power front. The state's power board is beefing up its wind mill power infrastructure in order to harvest the full potential and plans to sell surplus power to other states at a handsome...

Behind the glitz and glamour of the Cannes film festival, it is hard business for the Indian filmmakers and entertainment houses camping there. Deals are being inked and announcements of tie ups made during the prestigious festival that began...

The following is the sports schedule for May 17,...

GRUH Finance Limited, a housing finance company and a subsidiary of HDFC Ltd, has expanded its reach to two more states and is aiming to achieve disbursement of Rs.10 billion by...

The Indian equities market shrugged off high inflation and rising crude oil prices and surged ahead this...

A 14-point action plan to eradicate poverty from India's eight northeastern states promises to improve the condition of the estimated 7.9 million poor people in the...

If you are a student of Delhi University (DU), you have one more reason to look forward to your classes. Videos, animation, simulation and virtual labs are all set to supplement the learning process and make it...

Eager to provide relief to those injured in the serial terror blasts here that also killed over 60 people, the Rajasthan Chamber of Commerce and Industry has asked its over 10,000 members to donate...

A special filtration technique to enhance the shelf life of Neera, a sweet juice tapped from the palm tree, could help make it available to people all over the...

Can the computer replace your chartered accountant? Yes, says a software firm, which is aiming its only product at the small-time taxpayer who can't afford the hassles of finding a person to help file tax...

Pop singer Suneeta Rao, known best for chartbusters like 'Pari hoon main', 'Kesariya' and 'Ab ke baras' is all set to release her next album...

Raj Thackeray may have convinced himself that he is serving the cause of the Marathi 'manoos', but in actual fact he is doing a great disservice to Maharashtra and the sons of its...

Bollywood corporate houses are venturing into co-production in association with American and European studios. But UTV has gone a step further by producing its first Hollywood film, which is being shot in...

With the launch of the Indian Premier League (IPL), sports as business has arrived in India, like in the United States and Europe. According to estimates, trade in sports-related activities is five percent or more of world trade. In India it is cricket for now that is flush with entrepreneurial money but with time we may see the same phenomenon in other sports such as hockey and...

Mumbai Indians moved up to fourth position in the Indian Premier League standings after their eight-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders here Friday...

The eight franchisee owners and sponsors of the Indian Premier League (IPL) have decided to donate Rs.60 million for the victims of the serial bombings that rocked the city...

Police are on the lookout for three men who duped hundreds of investors of Rs.200 million through a fake mutual fund scheme...

Two old war horses of Mumbai Indians, Shaun Pollock and Sanath Jayasuriya, joined forces to give a mesmerising performance that blew away Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets in an Indian Premier League contest here Friday...

Three children died and three others were critically injured Friday evening when a car ran over them in Ghaziabad, the police...

With CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu acknowledging 'cracks' in West Bengal's three decades-old ruling Left Front, the party in a fire fighting effort said it would sort out the differences through...

The Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Gujarat police conducted searches in 35 different cyber cafes in Ahmedabad and booked 11 cafe owners for violating rules and not maintaining records of surfers, the police said here...

Controversial Kerala godman Swami Amritachaithanya alias Santhosh Madhavan, who was arrested on charges of rape and cheating, was Friday admitted to the Thrissur Medical College after he complained of chest...

A 15-year-old girl was found dead with her throat slit and multiple stab injuries on her face and chest when her father opened her bedroom door at their home here Friday morning, the police...

A police officer from Andhra Pradseh has topped this years civil services examinations and a Delhi youth has come second. A total of 734 candidates have made it to the elite Civil Services, it was announced...

Residents of the national capital experienced the summer heat again Friday as the temperatures began rising after staying below normal for the past week following the cyclonic pressure over the Bay of...

Algerian Ambassador Noureddine Bardad-Daidj Friday said that the public sector Gas Authority of India Ltd (Gail) may be part of the $13-billion Trans-Sahara gas pipeline...

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday urged people of his Amethi Lok Sabha constituency to take on Uttar Pradesh government officials if they did not implement the UPA's rural employment flagship scheme, and assured them his 'full...

Twelve people were killed and 23 others injured in a fire that raged through a three-storey shopping mall in North 24-Parganas district in West Bengal...

Kolkata Knight Riders fell like nine pins and were bundled out for a mere 67 runs against Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier League match here...

Top corporate heads Friday strongly opposed the closure of Bangalore city airport May 23 when the new international airport is set to commence operations from Devanahalli, about 40 km from India's silicon...

People in Agra attacked public buses and blocked roads Friday, protesting the death of a boy who was caught in a crossfire between the police and criminals, the police...

The Supreme Court Friday closed for seven weeks of summer vacation and will reopen July...

The central government Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging a high court ruling that backward category students competing for the civil services examinations on merit cannot be given the benefit of reservation and better and higher...

A total of 734 candidates, including 22 physically handicapped persons, have made it to the prestigious civil services this year, including for Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Foreign Service...

Kings XI Punjab captain Yuvraj Singh might be going through a form slump in the inaugural Indian Premier League, but he is not unduly bothered as long as his team is...

Unidentified men broke into a temple in east Delhi and decamped with jewellery valued at Rs.2 million, police said here...

More than 63 percent of over 11 million eligible voters exercised their franchise Friday in 66 constituencies in 10 districts of Karnataka in the second phase of elections to the 224-member state assembly, state election officials said at the end of...

A 25-year-old man was shot dead at his home in Ghaziabad by three unidentified men, police said...

Close on the heels of a suspicious e-mail sent from an Uttar Pradesh-based cyber cafe owning responsibility for the Jaipur serial bombings, state police are probing the suspected link of a Kashmiri resident of the city with the terror...

Even as the Supreme Court Friday suspended a Calcutta High Court anti-quota order which restrained the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) from admissions against the 27 percent Other Backward Classes quota, the Centre was planning to file caveats in state high courts to ensure quota law...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday told the Delhi High Court that after preliminary investigations it had found no evidence of payment of kickbacks in the Rs.14.35 billion Scorpene submarine...