Five security personnel were killed in a gunfight with Maoists in a forested area of Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region early on Sunday, police said.

"Maoists ambushed a police patrolling party dra

Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra's father, Mr A.S. Bindra, has been asked by the high court here to pay long-pending dues amounting to Rs 27.25 crore to Asset Reconstruction India within the next

Ten Venezuelan soldiers have died when their helicopter crashed in southwestern part of the country, an official said.

The accident occurred when the Russian-made MI-17 was taking off after leaving a

Scientists in China have identified a new species of dinosaur in a mountainous region in Shandong province, experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said.

Though fossils of the dinosaur wer

The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Sunday visited the remodelled and reconstructed Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here to see the preparedness of the venue that will host the opening and closing cer

Adding to the woes of Delhiites, an international cycling event on Sunday threw traffic out of gear in the heart of the capital as major roads were closed for the public from Sunday morning till after

Spain conducted over 4,000 transplants in 2009, making it the world leader in the field of organ transplants.

This has been declared in the 2010 edition of the EU's newsletter Transplant, which will

The Canadian parliament was reportedly on the hit-list of the Al Qaeda-linked terror plot unearthed in the capital Ottawa on Wednesday with the arrest of two suspects.

Another suspect was held on Thu

A man died after a falling coconut hit him on the head while he was relaxing in the shade of a coconut palm in the Colombian town of Melgar.

Jose Abelino Ramirez, 69, was resting in a rocking chair o

China's Henan province has asked the commercial carrier whose plane crashed during landing, killing 42 people on Tuesday, not to use the word "Henan" in its name in a bid to protect the province's ima