ew Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Security has been beefed up especially in New Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad after the home ministry warned police in three cities to raise their levels of p...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered the closure of illegal slaughterhouses and furnaces used in extraction of animal bone fat in Meeru...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday expressed its concern over the monsoon failure, threat of drought and further rise in the skyrocketing prices of essential commo...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil Tuesday prorogued the Lok Sabha, which concluded its second session Aug 7. 'The Lok Sabha which commenc...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that it was ready to reveal information under the Right to Information Act (RTI) on a complaint agains...More

Panaji, Aug 11 (IANS) Goa State Museum officials will meet later this week to decide whether artist M. F. Husain's painting titled 'Standing Buddha' should continue to be displaye...More

Rae Bareli, Aug 11 (IANS) Congress president and Rae Bareli MP Sonia Gandhi Tuesday visited various rural areas in her constituency to talk to villagers if they have benefited fro...More

Bangalore, Aug 11 (IANS) More than 30 Kannada film producers Tuesday demonstrated in front of the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC), saying theatre owners and distributors...More

Hyderabad, Aug 11 (IANS) A Malaysian coach has been quarantined in a hospital here with symptoms of swine flu, but Badminton World Federation (BWF) and health officials Tuesday sa...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council was reconstituted Tuesday with C. Rangarajan, former governor of India's central bank, back as its chairman...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The government Tuesday allowed the cash-strapped Maytas Properties to surrender its biotech special economic zone (SEZ), known as Maytas Ventures. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Amid shooting commodity prices and a deficient monsoon, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday assured that the government was taking all possible steps to...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Gujarat government to pay Rs.1 million in ex-gratia to the mother and three brothers of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who was wr...More

Ghaziabad, Aug 11 (IANS) A 28-year-old school principal in this Uttar Pradesh town was battling for life Tuesday after three men, including a rejected suitor, threw acid on her fa...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) About 45 percent of India's land is degraded, air pollution is increasing in all its cities, it is losing its rare plants and animals more rapidly than be...More