Patna, Aug 13 (IANS) The widow of slain Bihar minister Brij Bihari Prasad Thursday demanded that the eight people sentenced to life imprisonment for his murder be sent to the gall...More

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Out of the shadow of a Maoist government that focused on moral policing during its brief stint in power, Nepal's oldest and best known beauty pageant that...More

Madan Lal Dhingra was perhaps the first Indian freedom fighter to be executed on British soil. He died in London on Aug 17, 1909. It is strange that no one in the Indian governmen...More

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday greeted the nation on the occasion of Janmashtami and hoped the festival would encourage everyone to achieve of the...More

Jammu, Aug 13 (IANS) The nomadic Gujjars, who comprise about 20 percent of the 11 million population of Jammu and Kashmir, are angry at the 'meagre' allocation for tribal welfare ...More

Shimla, Aug 13 (IANS) Most hotels in various tourist destinations in Himachal Pradesh are totally booked ahead of the three-day extended weekend that starts with the Janmasthami f...More

Chandigarh, Aug 13 (IANS) A junior clerk of the Guru Nank Dev University (GNDU) in Punjab's holy city Amritsar has been arrested for allegedly posting morphed nude photographs of ...More

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Here comes another initiative from Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi targeting youth -- a commercial news magazine that is expected to hit the stand...More

Mumbai, Aug 13 (IANS) India's annual rate of inflation fell marginally to minus 1.74 percent percent for the week ending Aug 1 from minus 1.58 percent the week before, according t...More

Lucknow, Aug 13 (IANS) Two teachers of a government school in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district have been booked for allegedly molesting a Class 8 student, police said Thursday. ...More

Mumbai, Aug 13 (IANS) A key index of the Indian equities markets extended its gains a little before noon Thursday to rule 336 points in the green and was backed by strong cues fro...More

Raipur, Aug 13 (IANS) The number of suspected cases of swine flu in Chhattisgarh has soared from four to 22, a health official said Thursday. Most of the...More

New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) With Indians eating less cereals and pulses, the government must recast its food policy and launch a nutrition literacy movement fast if it is serious abo...More

Lucknow, Aug 13 (IANS) The number of people infected with influenza A (H1N1) in Uttar Pradesh has risen to 16 with a person in capital Lucknow testing positive for the viral disea...More

Bangalore, Aug 13 (IANS) Using satellite data from the US space agency NASA, American scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as muc...More