Jhajjar (Haryana), July 31 (IANS) Tension continued to prevail in some villages of this Haryana district Friday with members of a khap panchayat (caste council) camping on one sid...More

Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) K. Muraleedharan, the Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Kerala unit chief, Friday said he would appeal to Sonia Gandhi to revoke his ...More

Bhubaneswar, July 31 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Manoj Pradhan, an accused in last year's communal violence in Kandhamal district, surrendered before a local co...More

Lucknow, July 31 (IANS) Aiming to expedite the disinvestment of public sector undertakings under its policy of infrastructure development and divestment through public private par...More

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel and South African telecom giant MTN are yet to finalise their much-awaited merger deal, a senior official said here Fr...More

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Infrastructure major Jaiprakash Associates Ltd Friday signed an agreement with Assam Mineral Development Corp (AMDC) for setting up a cement plant in the...More

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) There were an estimated 2.3 million people living with HIV in India in 2007, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad informed the Rajya Sabha Friday. ...More

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday upheld the life sentence for a woman who had killed her husband in 1996 for marrying another girl. ...More

Shimla, July 31 (IANS) A Himachal Pradesh court Friday sent an activist of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to 12 days of police custody, officials said. ...More

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Three days after he met the prime minister to seek a special package for the Bundelkhand region, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday said the ...More

Chandigarh, July 31 (IANS) The controversy over having a separate Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) for Haryana to manage Sikh shrines in the state has started afresh...More

Mumbai, July 31 (IANS) Aluminium maker Hindalco Industries plans to raise $500 million (around Rs.2,400 crore) through issue of securities, including global depository receipts (G...More

Bhubaneswar, July 31 (IANS) A fast track court here Friday acquitted 16 people accused of torching a police outpost and killing a policeman when Orissa's Kandhamal district experi...More

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday refused to suspend a Calcutta High Court order, directing the phasing out of all commercial vehicles older than 15 years from th...More

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) 'India considers China its most important ally in Copenhagen negotiations,' Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Friday....More