A British teenager inspired by Robin Hood, a skilled archer popular in British legend, has set a world record in archery by shooting an arrow nearly 500 metres. Zak Crawford, 14, shot an arrow nearly 500 metres — equal to the length of five football pitches — using a recurve bow at the Northern Counties Flight Championships. He

People were evacuated from low-lying areas along the Yamuna in the capital on Sunday as the river continued to flow above the danger mark, an official said.

The water level of the Yamuna stood 22 cm

Four militants died on Saturday when a US drone fired three missiles into a house in northwest Pakistan, Xinhua reported.

Several other people were injured in the attack in North Waziristan's Mirali

Gorkha Janamukti Morhca central committee member Nicol Tamang, one of the prime accused in the murder of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL) chief Madan Taman, fled from police custody in Darjeeling

Indian-origin Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul has landed himself in another controversy by penning one of the darkest travelogues about Africa for decades. Critics believe his new work, 'The Masque of Afr

No one has been named in a first information report (FIR) lodged in the deaths of four infants during a routine immunisation drive in Lucknow, police said on Sunday.

Lucknow deputy inspector general

The famous smile of Mona Lisa, the magnum opus of Leonardo da Vinci, is no more a secret as scientists have decoded the technique how the Renaisance-era painter created a special effect to show the en

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has said it has no plans to cap the charges levied by life insurers on traditional savings policies.

The pilot of a New-Delhi-bound Air India (AI) flight abandoned its take-off at the Lucknow airport on Saturday after the plane developed some technical problems, an official said.

"The take-off was a

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive director Gilbert Felli on Saturday said 17 or 18 countries had expressed their interest in hosting future Youth Olympic Games.