New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Signing on full-time comedians for films is passe -- new age cinema now has mainstream actors like Akshay Kumar, Shreyas Talpade, Arshad Warsi and Riteish ...More

Lucknow, Aug 5 (IANS) The 60 red-stone elephants installed in the Rs.750 crore Ambedkar Park cum memorial here have nothing in common with the election symbol of Chief Minister Ma...More

Kolkata, Aug 5 (IANS) Indian men's recurve team of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia finished overall third in the World Cup archery (Stage IV) which began...More

Srinagar, Aug 5 (IANS) The annual Hindu pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine of Amarnath, which draws thousands of devotees every year, concluded here Wednesday. ...More

Pune, Aug 5 (IANS) A student of the school where Rida Shaikh, India's first swine flu victim was studying, was Wednesday confirmed to have caught the A(H1N1) influenza virus, an o...More

Kolkata, Aug 5 (IANS) The West Bengal government Wednesday requested Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee to hand over the excess railway land to the state government for developing ...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Twenty-three new cases of swine flu were reported from across India Wednesday, including a Malaysian student, as the infectious virus spread to small citie...More

Lalgarh (West Bengal), Aug 5 (IANS) Suspected Maoist guerrillas Wednesday killed two villagers in the trouble-torn Lalgarh region of West Bengal, police said. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) India will start its title defence of the Nehru Cup as the fourth-highest ranked in the six-team tournament. According to the lat...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) A man has been arrested for abducting a six-year-old cousin of a boy with whom his daughter had eloped last month, police said. Q...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Fide Master Shyam Nikil continued his fine run by holding top seed GM Salem A.R. Saleh of UAE in the fourth round Wednesday to remain in joint first positi...More

Chennai, Aug 5 (IANS) India progressed to the quarter-finals by drubbing England 3-0 for their third win and then drew lowly Canada in the knock-out phase of the 13th Junior World...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Five Indians advanced to the quarterfinals of the $10,000 women's International Tennis Federation's (ITF) tournament at the DLTA complex here Wednesday. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The Delhi government's decision to host the Independence Day celebrations at the Ambedkar Stadium has forced the Nehru Cup organisers to defer the football...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday flagged off the the first 'Ladies Special' train here for women commuters from Delhi to Palwal in Haryana and sa...More