He is the octopus, who gave astrologers a run for their money with his accurate, match-winning World Cup predictions. Paul the Octopus is now a worldwide phenomenon and many consider him a bigger draw than football.

The Delhi police on Thursday arrested a domestic help and her husband for allegedly murdering her 68-year-old woman employer after robbing her of cash and jewellery worth around Rs 12 lakhs. Rubi Begam (35) and her husband Rakesh Mehra (27) were today caught from Gopal Nagar in Punjab’s Jalandhar where they were in hiding,

The one-time run of “Sonar Tori (dream boat),” the special train which was scheduled to do the Kolkata-Dhaka stretch on August 7 to commemorate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’ 150th birth anniversay is off for now.

Union human resources development ministry on Thursday unveiled a low-cost computer for students carrying a price tag of Rs 1,500. The computer has all basic features, including Internet browsing required for students and has been developed by experts, students and professors from IITs and IISc Bangalore.

Britain on Thursday lifted the temporary suspension on tier-four (general student) visa applications from students in north India.
It will come into immediate effect.

The government has swung into action with the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers (MCF) having filed an affidavit in the Jabalpur high court demanding that DOW Chemicals bear the cost of remediation in and around the Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory in Bhopal.

The government on Thursday approved inclusion and amendment of the names of castes and communities in the Central list of other backward classes (OBCs). The decision has been taken in respect of states including Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Union Territory of Daman and Diu.

The government on Thursday approved Rs 3023.01 crore for the second phase of the UPA’s ambitious scheme to allocate unique identity numbers to 10 crore of the country’s population.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Thursday issued a directive stating that there should be no cap on number of satellite-based TV channels meant for downlinking and uplinking from India.

AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday said Mr P. Chidambaram is a very competent home minister. “The Prime Minister has reposed confidence in him to lead the ministry which I think is right,” he said. He also welcomed the AICC’s directives to the partymen.