A new regulation that requires women buying emergency contraceptives in at least one Chinese city to register their real names and ID card numbers has triggered an outcry on the Internet.

The death toll of infants in the last seven days has risen to 21 with five more newborn dying on Thursday in the government-run Malda Sadar Hospital here, according to acting superintendent of the hospital M.A. Rashid.

As the Lokpal Bill failed to get Parliament's nod, Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Congress will not rest till a strong law is passed and slammed the BJP, saying those who used to talk about 'India Shining' defeated the proposed legislation.

After laying the entire blame for the crushing electoral drubbing on the CPI(M), the CPI has now raised a question about the existing structure of the Left Front. Insinuating the big brother party for “its unilateral way of functioning,” CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan asked: “Why the chairman of the Left Front should always be a CPI(M) leader.

Anna Hazare and his organisation, India Against Corruption, has made it into the American spy agency CIA’s World Factbook as a political pressure group in India, joining the league of the RSS, Bajrang

His watch stopped on June 11, 1991. After spending two decades in jail, Perarivalan — one of the death-row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case — found 2011 was a rollercoaster ride. This year he almost walked to the gallows and was saved only by a series of interventions.

As many as six persons have succumbed to a mysterious disease in Bageshwari village in Bihar’s Munger district since late Tuesday night, according to a district medical official.

A woman here died of infection caused by a bundle of cotton gauze mistakenly left in her stomach during a family planning surgery, allegedly conducted by an ENT specialist in a government hospital in a Chhattisgarh district nearly three weeks ago, officials said on Wednesday.

Indian Navy is set to receive a major boost when the much-awaited Russian Nerpa nuclear attack submarine would join its fleet “in the next few days” on a 10-year lease worth $920 million.

The elusive Ulfa chief, Paresh Baruah, is trying to act as a bridge between the underground organisations of Northeast and China.
Disclosing that Ulfa chief was not in Ruli areas of Bhutan, authoritative security sources told this newspaper that Ulfa chief informed his close confidants about his plan of visiting some places in China.