New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Sky gazers across the country can expect to see some celestial fireworks at night on Tuesday and Wednesday as the night sky will be lit up by the annual P...More

Hyderabad, Aug 11 (IANS) India's Arvind Bhat came close to upsetting ninth seed Yu Hsien Hsieh of Chinese Tapiei but lost in a thriller in the first round of the World Badminton C...More

Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS) Nordic carrier Finnair is restarting its operations from this city to Europe from Oct 18, with a brand new fleet of Airbus aircraft, sensing a revival in pas...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Reacting to the sentencing of Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to imprisonment over an uninvited intrusion by an American tourist thr...More

Vadodara, Aug 11 (IANS) A seven-year-old girl died of the H1N1 influenza at a government hospital in this Gujarat city early Tuesday, taking the toll of the viral disease in the c...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Heavy rains hit Delhi Tuesday afternoon, cooling the capital that had been the reeling under hot and humid conditions and also catching many residents una...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The spectre of drought looms large over as many as 161 out of 626 districts in India due to deficient monsoon, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here...More

Vadodara, Aug 11 (IANS) A seven-year-old girl died of swine flu at a government hospital in this Gujarat town Tuesday, taking the number of people who have died of the disease to ...More

Shimla, Aug 11 (IANS) Faced with marauding monkeys that have been ruining standing crops in Himachal Pradesh, the state government has plans to raise a 'special brigade' through t...More

Agartala, Aug 11 (IANS) Tripura will be declared fully literate in September next year, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said Tuesday. 'On the occasion of Wor...More

Ranchi, Aug 11 (IANS) Political parties in Jharkhand want the state to be declared famine affected because of scanty monsoon and are also demanding a special financial package to ...More

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Developing vaccines against swine flu virus strains is a complex and time-consuming process and inoculations are usually effective only for a single seaso...More

Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS) A 63-year-old woman died of swine flu here Tuesday, the ninth victim of the viral disease in the country. Shahida Warsi from Thane ...More

Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS) Indian equities were trading in the green Tuesday afternoon, with a key index ruling 193 points higher than its previous close. At ...More

Srinagar, Aug 11 (IANS) A shutdown called by the Hurriyat Conference and other separatist groups hit life in the Kashmir Valley Tuesday to mark the first death anniversary of a se...More