Patna, Sep 17 (IANS) Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) has taken a clear lead on five seats in the by-elections to 18 assembly constituencies in the state, counting for whic...More

Hyderabad, Sep 17 (IANS) Interests rates may marginally increase towards the end of the current fiscal as the economic situation is improving and demand is picking up, Prime Minis...More

Coonoor (Tamil Nadu), Sep 17 (IANS) State-run Export-Import (Exim) Bank will finance planters up to 50 percent for branding Indian organic tea in overseas markets, a top bank offi...More

Lucknow, Sep 17 (IANS) It's a long, long weekend for the employees of the Uttar Pradesh government. Starting Thursday, it's a five-day break for the government officials due to va...More

New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) The cabinet Thursday approved a proposal to avail Japanese assistance to create the western arm of a dedicated freight corridor costing Rs.26,124 crore. ...More

Gharaunda (Haryana), Sep 17 (IANS) Three teenagers were detained Thursday for allegedly throwing stones at a train in which Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was travelling ...More

Agartala, Sep 17 (IANS) A 16-year-old boy was arrested with three US-made pistols and ammunition as authorities claimed to have foiled a terror strike planned during the upcoming ...More

Chennai, Sep 17 (IANS) In Tamil his name means carrier of fame. But what Pugazhendi, a one and a half year old boy actually carried to this world was a second life for his elder s...More

Ghaziabad, Sep 17 (IANS) The disfigured bodies of an unidentified couple who appear to have been brutally murdered have been found in a forest area in this satellite town of the ...More

New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) The government has not taken a view on supporting or opposing in the Supreme Court the recent Delhi High Court judgement decriminalising homosexuality amo...More

Naubatpur (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 17 (IANS) This story stands out as an exemplar of Hindu-Muslim brotherherhood in communally trying times. Every year during Ramzan, a temple in this...More

Chennai, Sep 17 (IANS) India needs a government with 'steel in its spine and not jelly', former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa said Thursday as she hit out at the 'soft...More

New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) After remaining in negative zone for 13 consecutive weeks, India's annual rate of inflation was back to positive at 0.12 percent for the week ended Sep 5,...More

Bangalore, Sep 17 (IANS) Actor-director Roopa Iyer's Kannada film 'Mukhaputa', about children suffering from HIV/AIDS, has won the best feature film award at the recently conclud...More

New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) Columnist and writer Gurcharan Das, author of best-selling 'India Unbound', has turned to the epic Mahabharata in his new book, 'The Difficulty of Being G...More