May 12: An incident of radioactive contamination was detected at a laboratory in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) in Trombay on Wednesday. However, nobody was injured in the incident.

Puducherry is seeking expansion of the existing airport and may seek acquisition of land from neighbouring Tamil Nadu, civil aviation ministry sources have indicated. The chief minister of Puducherry met civil aviation secretary Madhavan Nambiar on Wednesday. Puducherry has sought Central financial assistance for the land acquisition, sources said.

Not happy with its Kurukshetra MP Naveen Jindal’s remarks on khap panchayats asking for a legal ban on same-gotra (clan or lineage) marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act, the Congress on Wednesday sought an explanation from him.

The body of a 37-year-old police constable attached with the railway police was recovered inside a local train compartment at Ambernath early on Thursday morning.

Whether it was the March sisters in Little Women, who were always in a fluster to find their best dresses before a ball (cotton, since they were poor) or the thrown-together cool of young bands like t

Conservative Party leader David William Donald Cameron became Britain’s youngest Prime Minister in two centuries when he was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday night.

Newly-elected PM David Cameron, in one of his first decisions, set up a National Security Council to oversee all aspects of Britain’s security.

Gordon Brown returned home to Fife in Scotland with his family on Tuesday night after resigning both as the PM and leader of the Labour party.

Britain’s new deputy prime minister Nich-olas “Nick” William Peter Clegg has only been a member of Parliament for Sheff-ield since 2005.

The Conservatives have prevailed over the Liberal Democrats on the economic issues and immigration in the new coalition deal thrashed out between the two negotiating teams over five days after the gen