Chennai, Aug 24 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Monday instructed the state health department to set up swine flu monitoring centres at pilgrimage places like Thir...More

Bhubaneswar, Aug 24 (IANS) At least 24 people have died of diarrhoea in the past three weeks and over two dozen are being treated in Orissa's Kalahandi district, an official said ...More

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Days after India presented a fresh dossier on the alleged involvement of Hafiz Saeed in the Mumbai attacks, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Monday ...More

Chennai, Aug 24 (IANS) Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) and its associates will hold a majority stake in the real estate venture capital fund to be floated by LIC Housing Financ...More

Avadi (Tamil Nadu), Aug 24 (IANS) The first batch T-90 tanks manufactured in India under license from Russia were Monday handed over to the Indian Army. ...More

Bhopal, Aug 24 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh reported its second case of swine flu Monday with a software engineer testing positive for the disease in his hometown Sagar. ...More

Kolkata, Aug 24 (IANS) A two-day shutdown called by the Maoists in five states beginning Monday, to demand the release of two of its arrested members, had negligible impact in W...More

Kolkata, Aug 24 (IANS) A used grenade was recovered from a garbage dump in West Bengal's Darjeeling district Monday, police said. According to police, th...More

New Delhi/Patna, Aug 24 (IANS) India has reported 236 cases of polio in the last eight months and the country is moving towards wiping out the disease as 99 percent of the job is ...More

Chandigarh, Aug 24 (IANS) After intense speculation about their future, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday announced that it was snapping its alliance with the Indian Nationa...More

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) India football skipper Bhaichung Bhutia has seen it all over a 14-year-long career spanning 100 international matches. He wants the All India Football Fed...More

Rajkot, Aug 24 (IANS) A 52-year-old man died of influenza A(H1N1) in this Gujarat city Monday, becoming the seventh victim of swine flu in the state, officials said. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Harbhajan Singh has always relished taking on the combative Australians and the Indian off-spinner could not hide his happiness at the Baggy Greens surren...More

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) India's fiscal deficit this year will not exceed 6.8 percent, Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia said here Monday. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) The National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday announced special cells would be set up in the national capital to check cases of violence against women. ...More