Noted film maker Karan Johar on Friday tendered an apology to MNS chief Raj Thackeray after party activists stopped screening of his new film 'Wake Up Sid' in some cinema halls here, objecting use of
The banned CPI (Maoist) has threatened to kill Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar if two of their top leaders were not released from jail, official sources said. 'Dabloo', a naxalite leader, in an sms from
Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday led the nation in paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 140th birth anniversary. Ansari, Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition
In a midnight attack, heavily-armed suspected Maoists swooped down on a village in Bihar's Khagaria district and shot dead 16 villagers, mostly teenagers, after tying their hands and feet. The gunmen pulled the victims out
Sixty-year-old Francis Gomes, the paranoid man, who confined his wife and two daughters at home for seven years fearing they would be raped if they ventured out, was on Thursday produced before a local court
In a major move which will benefit thousands of private colleges in the country, Government has amended the 34-year-old University Grants Commission (UGC) Rules to enable these institutes get grants. At present UGC provides grant
Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, granted bail by Bombay High Court in a rape case on Thursday, will have to spend two more nights in the Arthur Road jail as his family could not complete some
Committing itself to a greater role in the government's fight against Maoists, the IAF on Thursday said it has sought permission from the Defence Ministry to open fire at the Left extremists if its helicopters
The Kerala government suspended boating in the Thekkady lake after several survivors of Wednesday's boat tragedy blamed lack of safety measures for the capsize that claimed 41 lives. A judicial probe would cover all aspects
The Central Bureau of Investigation will formally move an application before the Magistrates Court in Delhi on Saturday withdrawing the cases against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Bofors Gun Deal, the Union Law Minister
Four more people succumbed to swine flu on Thursday even as 142 fresh cases of the viral infection were reported from across the country. Of the total cases of fresh infections, Delhi reported 39, Maharashtra
Defence Minister A K Antony on Thursday said India was building its defence capabilities just as China did. "Just as what China is doing, we are also trying to strengthen our capabilities," Antony told reporters
Eleven people from Delhi, including three each from two neighbouring families, were among 39 people killed in a boat capsize in Kerala's Idukki district, officials said on Thursday. Of them, eight were women and another
Geologists in Tamil Nadu have found hundreds of fossilized dinosaur eggs, perhaps 65 million years old, underneath a stream in a village in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu, media report said. Researchers from the Salem-based
The IAF is upgrading six airstrips in Arunachal Pradesh bordering China to improve its capabilities to move troops there quickly, Air Chief Marshal P V Naik said on Thursday. Naik said these airstrips, called Advanced
Opening a new front in needling India, the Chinese Embassy has started the practice of stamping visas to some Kashmiris on a separate sheet of paper instead of passports, prompting the government to lodge a
Breast cancer has got deadlier for the modern woman who with her late marriage, unhealthy eating and growing weight is becoming vulnerable to the illness.Experts project breast cancer to strike approximately 2.5 lakh women in
The crisis in Air India ended on Wednesday with pilots calling off their five-day old agitation under Government threat to resume duty or face action after it promised to put in abeyance the decision to
Noted music composer and brother of Lata Mangeshkar, Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar on Wednesday joined the Shiv Sena. "Mangeshkar met Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray at his residence 'Matoshree' in suburban Bandra and formally joined the
Ten months after the devastating attacks in Mumbai by Pakistan-based militants, the group behind the assault remains largely intact and determined to strike India again, according to current and former members of the group, Lashkar-e-Taiba,
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