Bhubaneswar, Aug 6 (IANS) An engineer who had recently returned from Singapore was Thursday admitted to a Cuttack hospital with swine flu symptoms, Orissa's first suspected case o...More

Panaji, Aug 6 (IANS) Goa, the country's leading tourist destination, is yet to receive thermal scanners from the civil aviation ministry to scan incoming passengers for swine flu ...More

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The government Thursday said it will release a subsidy of Rs.2,546 crore ($535 million) for the crisis-hit textile sector, which will directly reach the be...More

Shimla, Aug 6 (IANS) Poor rainfall this monsoon and poorer snowfall last winter have hit apple production in Himachal Pradesh. But the farmers are not complaining, as the fruit's ...More

Bangalore, Aug 6 (IANS) Agri-tech firm Ratnagiri Impex will set up a retail chain in rural India to market farming machinery such as sprayers, a top company official said. ...More

Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) Saying that the US needs to wake up to the reality of India's technological revolution being led by IIT-educated 'young men and women under the age of 27'...More

Bhopal, Aug 6 (IANS) Teams of Madhya Pradesh's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) have fanned out to hunt for accomplices of alleged Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activist Moh...More

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Nearly one million bank employees in India, including some with private and foreign banks, went on a two-day nationwide strike Thursday demanding higher wa...More

Ranchi, Aug 6 (IANS) The Jharkhand government will seek a relief package of about Rs.400 crore from the central government since all districts have been declared drought-hit, offi...More

Lucknow, Aug 6 (IANS) A mother beat her six-year-old son to death in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli district for his repeated demands for chocolate, the police said Thursday. ...More

Lalgarh (West Bengal), Aug 6 (IANS) Three activists of Jharkhand Party-Naren (JKP-N) were killed by suspected Maoist rebels early Thursday in this trouble-torn belt of West Midnap...More

Indore, Aug 6 (IANS) At least 60 people, half of them women and children, fell ill after eating sweets at a function here, police said Thursday. The inci...More

Patna, Aug 6 (IANS) For teenagers Akanksha and Ankita Pandey, the festival of Raksha Bandhan brought no joy. Their brother was kidnapped a few days before the festival two years a...More

Panaji, Aug 6 (IANS) All mines located near wildlife sanctuaries in Goa will be closed within seven days, Goa Environment Minister Aleixo Sequeira said here Thursday. ...More

Srinagar, Aug 6 (IANS) The district and sessions judge of Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir Thursday rejected the bail application moved by four police officers accused of destroying e...More