A private helicopter, hired along with two other copters for the visit of BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and his family, crashed in Ladpur jungles here on Sunday barely hours after the group had got down at

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna on Monday left for Yangon on the first high-level official visit from India since the civilian government took over in Myanmar.

Four persons were killed and at least seven others injured on Sunday after a brake lever snapped from a freight train at Aligarh junction and the wheel ploughed into passengers waiting at the platfor

Capping four years of probe, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday charged Swami Aseemanand and four others with triggering explosions in the cross-border Samjhauta Express in 2007 that left 68 people dead.

India would not mind setting aside protocol to host Hina Rabbani Khar, the 34-year-old minister of state for foreign affairs of Pakistan, for talks with external affairs minister S.M.

A woman was allegedly raped and burnt alive in Etah while two teenagers were raped in Firozabad and Gonda districts of Uttar Pradesh which has been rocked by series of cases of brutal assault on women in the last two days.

India has voiced deep reservations about a move by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to withhold the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology (or ENR) to non-NPT signatories such as India.

India will raise the issue of terror links of Pakistan’s ISI, as has been revealed by Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley during the Chicago trial, when the foreign secretaries of the two countries will meet later this week in Islamabad.

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna has sought a meeting with Burmese pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, but New Delhi would not confirm on Sunday whether its request has been accepted.

The Janata Dal(U) chief Sharad Yadav on Sunday said there was no dearth of honest people in politics. They have left homes for the larger issues — the political cause, he felt.