The stock market benchmark Sensex on Wednesday tumbled over 467 points, the most in three-months, as investors panicked after Germany banned short-selling in bonds, fanning concerns that global economic recovery may get derailed. Germany's move
Bollywood beauty Katrina Kaif is increasingly becoming a security hazard to herself. In spite of the constant flow of stalkers and mobs, she continues to step out fearlessly, some would say recklessly without care about
Bollywood hottie Ameesha Patel was seen in a heated exchange of words with her elderly driver outside her Juhu gym on Saturday evening, says a media report. The argument took an ugly turn as Ameesha
Terming Naxals as the biggest terrorists, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Wednesday said there cannot be a "soft line" to deal with Maoists but disfavoured use of air power to combat the menace. Attributing
Maoists on Wednesday unleashed violence in West Bengal killing five CRPF men and blowing up a government office in Orissa on the last day of their 48-hour bandh in five states, spurning Home Minister P
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said the government was ready to “empower” the Home Ministry to use air support for police action against Naxalites provided adequate safeguards were in place against any misuse of such
Ruling out any political understanding with Mayawati-led BSP, Rahul Gandhi hinted that Congress may go it alone in the 2012 assembly polls in the state. "I am ready to fight your battle. Take me where
All 10 fingerprints, an iris scan and a photograph of the person will be used for unique identification (UID) of individuals, the cabinet committee on UID decided on Tuesday, giving its in-principle clearance to guidelines
With cyclone Laila nearing landfall, over 40,000 people were evacuated from low- lying areas of Andhra Pradesh even as authorities in West Bengal and Orissa on Thursday issued alerts to people in coastal regions and
The results of more than 6.99 lakh students who appeared for class XII CBSE board examination this year will be declared on May 21. The results will be available on CBSE websites after 8.00 am
BJP on Tuesday accused UPA chief Sonia Gandhi and other top Congress leaders of supporting a "softline" towards Naxals and warned that giving a "limited mandate" to Home Minister P Chidambaram in the fight against
A day after Naxals unleashed another attack in Chattisgarh, Home Minister P Chidambaram today made a fresh offer on Tuesday to hold talks if they "suspend" violence even for just 72 hours but the Left-wing
Ending a three-week long political impasse in Jharkhand, the BJP and JMM on Tuesday in Ranchi reached an agreement on sharing power on rotational basis with a BJP-led government to take over within a week.
After fatwas by Darul Uloom Deoband that it was un-Islamic for women to work in close proximity of men in offices and for her family to accept her earnings, an Islamic seminary in Lucknow has
Over two years after computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman was found dead under mysterious circumstances near a railway track in Kolkata, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the CBI to register a murder case
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in a circular on Saturday stopped any new admissions to its emergency ward, reports Times of India. AIIMS has two wards earmarked for emergency patients, but sources
The 48-hour bandh called by Maoists in five states evoked mixed response on the first day on Tuesday even as the Railways, a soft target of Left wing extremists, took adequate measures to thwart attack
In a fresh fatwa, Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deboand has said that Islam does not permit celebrating birthdays. Responding to a query posed by a woman, the country's biggest Islamic seminary observed that the tradition
The incident at New Delhi Railway Station which claimed two lives and injured eight others happened due to tripping of passengers at the foot-over bridge and not due to a stampede on the platform, Railways
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday appealed to all political parties, especially the BJP, to maintain a bipartisan approach in dealing with Maoists and said it is the state governments which have the primary responsibility
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