New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony will Thursday embark on a three-day visit to the Maldives during which a pact for greater defence cooperation is expec...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Tourist spots should be kept clean and drivers, waiters and cooks should be trained to ensure that travellers make repeated visits to popular hotspots lik...More

Guwahati, Aug 19 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale shook India's northeast Wednesday, officials said. An official at the regional s...More

Mumbai, Aug 19 (IANS) A fall in Chinese bourses weighed heavily on Indian equities markets, with a key index ending trade Wednesday 225 points below its previous close. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Was Jaswant Singh the victim of high-level intrigue in his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that used him to deflect attention from its own shortcomings to av...More

Gandhinagar, Aug 19 (IANS) The Gujarat government has advised all doctors and nursing staff attending to swine flu patients in government and private hospitals to follow protectiv...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Nokia India Wednesday said it will roll out microfinancing schemes in 12 states in an effort to push its mobile phone penetration in the country. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The country's premier long distance education varsity, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has collaborated with nearly a dozen universitie...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Natural disasters like the 2008 floods in India leave children vulnerable to trafficking and many girls end up being 'sold as brides', says a new report b...More

Guwahati, Aug 19 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale jolted most of northeastern India Wednesday afternoon, though there were no reports of injury or damage. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Promising to push the peace process in Nepal, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Wednesday unveiled a slew of initiatives, including an industrial security...More

Shimla, Aug 19 (IANS) He has gone from being the party's Hanuman to its Ravana but his political life has not yet ended, a tearful Jaswant Singh said Wednesday shortly after a pho...More

Bhubaneswar, Aug 19 (IANS) South Korean steel major Posco Wednesday dismissed reports that its proposed steel plant in Orissa is being relocated to another site. ...More

Bhopal, Aug 19 (IANS) There is no respite from high retail prices of sugar in Madhya Pradesh even though authorities continued their anti-hoarding drive Wednesday and seized aroun...More

Panaji, Aug 19 (IANS) An art exhibition by renowned installation artist Subodh Kerkar with god Ganesh as its theme will now be held for two days instead of the planned 12 days, th...More