Kolkata, Aug 9 (IANS) Heroin worth Rs.80 million has been seized from a goods train in Malda district of West Bengal, an excise department official said Sunday. ...More

Bangalore, Aug 9 (IANS) Eighteen years after it was installed, the statue of Tamil saint-poet Thiruvalluvar was finally unveiled here Sunday with Bangalore ignoring calls for a sh...More

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) In a damage control mode after its recent bid to block development aid for India at the Asian Development Bank, China has stressed the need to build 'strat...More

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The privately run Sanskriti School here will be closed for a week after three of its students tested positive for swine flu, a teacher said Sunday. One of ...More

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) With swine flu infecting more people, schools in Delhi are doing all they can to contain the spread of the virus among students. So much so that even a sne...More

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) After the government sought to assure senior leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad and Murli Manohar Joshi that there would be no scaling down of their ...More

Mumbai, Aug 9 (IANS) A local train rammed into a stationary train at Mahim station in south-central Mumbai, injuring a commuter, a railway official said Sunday. ...More

Patna, Aug 9 (IANS) Poverty and hunger forced an elderly couple in a Bihar village to commit suicide, villagers said Sunday. However, a local official maintained the couple died o...More

Panaji, Aug 9 (IANS) Four more confirmed cases of swine flu were reported in Goa, taking the total number of Influenza A (H1N1) patients in the state to 11, a health official said...More

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday spoke to Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad as swine flu claimed two more lives in India, taking the national death toll...More

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Owing to 'alarmingly' spiralling prices, Indian households reduced pulse consumption to less than 11 kg in the first half of 2009, according to a report by...More

Kolkata, Aug 9 (IANS) Six undertrials fled a correctional home in West Bengal after their associates gave drug-laced soft drinks to security personnel at the gate, a police offici...More

Patna, Aug 9 (IANS) At least six people, including children, have died of cerebral malaria and more than 1,000 were afflicted with the disease in Bihar's Munger district, a health...More

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) After a 43-year-old NRI died of swine flu in Ahmedabad Sunday, authorities in Gujarat are worried that the state could see a spurt in Influenza A(H1N1) cas...More

Dharamsala, Aug 9 (IANS) The National Civil Rights Museum in the US will confer the International Freedom Award on the Dalai Lama for his 'steadfast commitment to protecting and d...More