Mumbai, Aug 12 (IANS) All educational establishments in India's financial capital Mumbai will be closed for a week from Thursday and multiplexes for three days to arrest the sprea...More

New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Grandmaster Praveen Thipsay made his fiftieth birthday a memorable occasion Wednesday as he defeated Surbir Lama of Nepal in the sixth round of the Asian ...More

Ranchi, Aug 12 (IANS) Six undertrials escaped from a Jharkhand court lock-up Wednesday and the media persons covering the jail break had to face the police wrath, according to wit...More

New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Engineering and construction major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) will supply and erect boiler and steam turbine for a thermal power project that Jaiprakash Powe...More

Pune, Aug 12 (IANS) A 48-year-old driver died of swine flu Wednesday afternoon, as the Sassoon Hospital here registered fifth death of the day from the H1N1 virus since early morn...More

Pune, Aug 12 (IANS) The well-known Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) has been closed for a week due to the spread of influenza A (H1N1) virus, an official said Wednesd...More

New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) The following are some salient features pertaining to the new Direct Tax Code proposed by the government, for which a draft and a discussion paper were re...More

New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday unveiled a draft of the new Direct Tax Code to replace the five-decade-old Income Tax Act with easy-to-compreh...More

New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) A coach of a Delhi Metro train derailed near Dwarka station on the Yamuna Bank-Dwarka line Wednesday, metro officials said. All the 39 passengers in the c...More

Chennai, Aug 12 (IANS) Home Minister P.Chidambaram Wednesday assured the nation that all security measures have been taken to ensure that the Independence Day passes peacefully. ...More

Ghaziabad, Aug 12 (IANS) About a dozen armed men robbed the house of a retired Border Security Force (BSF) officer here of cash and jewellery worth nearly Rs.3 lakh, police said W...More

Pune, Aug 12 (IANS) A 50-year-old woman and a schoolboy were among the five people who succumbed to swine flu in Maharashtra Wednesday, taking India's death toll to 16 in the 10 d...More

Hyderabad, Aug 12 (IANS) India's Saina Nehwal defeated Anastasia Prokopenko of Russia 21-10, 21-17 to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of the World Badminton Championships here We...More

Chennai, Aug 12 (IANS) The Madras High Court Wednesday permitted political party PMK to demonstrate to election commission officials how the electronic voting machine (EVM) can be...More

New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) While the rash of swine flu cases is making many argue that private laboratories should be allowed to conduct tests for the presence of the H1N1 virus, th...More