New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Community and voluntary organisations have a crucial role to play in the delivery of quality education at the grassroots in the country with 42 million ch...More

Hyderabad, Aug 25 (IANS) India's technology institutes should work to develop low-cost laptops not costing more than $10 for students, according to Minister of State for Higher Ed...More

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Pharmaceutical major Piramal Life Sciences Tuesday said it has completed the phase-I clinical trials of its new medicine that will make the treatment of d...More

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh Tuesday invited expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh to join his party and continue in ...More

Gandhinagar, Aug 25 (IANS) Elaborate security arrangements are being made in Gujarat to ensure violence free by-elections to seven assembly seats Sep 10. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the country's premier telecommunications research and development centre, turned 25 Tuesday. ...More

Mumbai, Aug 25 (IANS) In the wake of growing abuse of domestic servants and minors in the city, the Maharashtra government Tuesday filed cases against Bollywood actress Suchitra K...More

New Delhi/Bangalore, Aug 25 (IANS) India Tuesday reported two swine flu deaths with a 44-year-old woman in the national capital and a 28-year-old man in Bangalore succumbing to th...More

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) 'All-out efforts' are needed to put the country's economy back on high growth trajectory, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Tuesday, calling upon In...More

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Without naming Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said India has been a victim of terrorism but will strive to engage neighbours constructive...More

Ludhiana, Aug 25 (IANS) A suspected terrorist was arrested Tuesday after he got off a train and opened random fire at the Ludhiana railway station in Punjab killing a vendor, poli...More

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Home affairs Ajay Maken Tuesday visited areas in south Delhi to take stock of the civic infrastructure in the wake of reports ...More

Ranchi, Aug 25 (IANS) A two-day strike imposed by Maoists in five eastern Indian states to demand the release of two of its leaders evoked a partial response Tuesday and saw viole...More

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) On an average 17 children went missing each day of 2008 in the capital, says a report submitted by a government-appointed rights body to the Delhi High Co...More

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Supporters of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi thwarted then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who wanted Modi to quit over the 2002 communal violen...More