Chennai, Aug 19 (IANS) With Indian auto makers rolling out cars powered by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), the city-based Indian Auto Gas has chalked out plans to expand its gas ve...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) 'It was the darkest night of my life,' recalls 45-year-old Ravinder Nath Pradhan, who a year ago saw his house and paralysed brother being doused with pet...More

Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) Maoists vandalised and set ablaze a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) office as an indefinite shutdowm called by them in three districts of West Ben...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Taking serious note of the insensitivity shown towards children living in juvenile homes, the Delhi High Court Wednesday constituted a four-member committ...More

Dehradun, Aug 19 (IANS) A series of landslides triggered by incessant rains over the past three days in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand has disrupted the Kailash-Mansarovar pi...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Animal rights activist and MP Maneka Gandhi has written a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico seeking a prohibition on importing monkeys to that country...More

Bangalore, Aug 19 (IANS) Cytotron, a device developed by the city-based medical technology firm Scalene Cybernetics for treatment of cancer and osteoarthritis, has received the Eu...More

Shimla, Aug 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), wrestling with unprecedented internal dissent, Wednesday expelled its veteran leader Jaswant Singh from the party over alle...More

Ranchi, Aug 19 (IANS) Ten employees of a Hindalco plant in Jharkhand, abducted by a splinter group of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoists) two days ago, were f...More

Aligarh, Aug 19 (IANS) Asking the media to shed its 'obsession' with Pakistan, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Wednesday rued the lack of expertise in the co...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday stayed the scheduled hanging of a man, convicted of raping and killing his four-year-old daughter, at the Ambala Central jail ...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) 'We should look through the eyes of tourists about what they expect from us,' Tourism Minister Kumari Selja said here Wednesday, calling upon experts and ...More

Aligarh, Aug 19 (IANS) Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Wednesday said Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan's detention at a US airport 'raised real questions about ...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Dalit and backward category students competing in the civil services exams on merit should be allowed to avail quota benefits to secure higher services an...More

Chandigarh, Aug 19 (IANS) The Punjab government is offering various sops to information technology (IT) companies operating in the state, including a 24-hour uninterrupted power s...More