Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hopes that the United States will help India get the official status of a nuclear weapons state, given its impeccable record in the field of non-proliferation. "Well, I hope it will
A 12-hour Bengal bandh called by the BJP to protest the hike in power tariff turned violent on Monday with supporters setting afire buses and clashing with police which used batons to quell them. Train
Documents dating back to the 1950s declassified by the Central Intelligency Agency (CIA) of the US under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the paranoia of the American spy agency about the re-emergence of Netaji
Technical glitches that disrupted the first on-line Common Admission Test for entry to the Indian Institutes of Management and top business schools at one-fifth of the exam centres were blamed on a virus attack, as
A senior IAS officer heading the housing department in Uttar Pradesh allegedly committed suicide at his official residence in Lucknow by shooting himself from his licenced revolver early Sunday morning but police did not suspect
From Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan to Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra, eminent Indians from different walks of life on Sunday came forward to express their solidarity against terror. Saluting India's diverse culture and its uniqueness
In a reflection of further chill in Indo-Pak relations, Foreign Ministers of the two countries avoided a meeting even though they were at the same venue in Spain for the last three days to attend
Top Mumbai cop Rakesh Maria had not only hidden facts about location of Additional Commissioner Ashok Kamte during the 26/11 terror strikes but also concealed the timing of his death from the family, the deceased
The number of H1N1 flu deaths showed a sharp jump compared to a week ago, but the World Health Organisation said that the epidemic may have peaked in parts of the northern hemisphere. The number
Investigators on Monday questioned employees present in the operating area of the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant after preliminary findings revealed "internal sabotage" for the radioactive contamination of drinking water at the high-security complex. The probe
UN radio says at least 90 people are confirmed dead after a logging boat sank on a lake in Congo. A survivor, Ewiya Mukana, told Radio Okapi on Saturday that dozens of corpses were spread
India and Canada on Saturday concluded negotiations on a civil nuclear cooperation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper describing the development as a "milestone" opening up "tremendous opportunity" for the
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah was on Saturday nominated the Congress Legislature Party leader by party chief Sonia Gandhi, bringing down the curtains on the issue of sucessor to late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy
With Madhu Koda continuing to defy summons from probe agencies, Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken on Saturday said the Centre was not averse to asking the CBI to investigate the multi-crore money
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, lyricist Javed Akhtar, singer Shreya Ghoshal and tennis player Sania Mirza are among prominent personalities who will gather at the historic India Gate in New Delhi on Sunday to express
Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil has directed the police to probe the case of the "missing" bulletproof vest of Anti-Terror Squad chief Hemant Karkare, who died fighting terrorists during the 26/11 attacks. "Patil has
Ajmal Kasab and nine other terrorists, who attacked Mumbai in November last year, were in constant touch with top Lashkar-e-Tayiba commanders in Pakistan during the strikes and received instructions to kill 'political leaders, foreigners and
Asserting that there is no need to press the panic button, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said the Dubai debt crisis will not have "earth shaking" impact on the country's economy. "The full impact
During 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the security were forced to use old ammunition, which misfired, indicate investigations, says a Mid Day report. For 62 hours, beginning 9.20 pm on November 26, 2008, Indian security forces,
The first-ever experiment of the IIMs to conduct its Common Admission Test (CAT) using computers ran into trouble today with servers crashing in 11 of the 105 centres across the country, affecting over 1500 students
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