Suspected Maoists shot dead a woman in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said on Thursday.

Locals noticed the bullet-ridden body of the victim lying on the road near Dhanshole village in

A 23-year-old Indian student was hunted before being robbed, bashed and left unconscious at a telephone booth in Melbourne by a group of three youngsters, an Australian court has heard.

Aleksander Tr

The Uttar Pradesh minister, Mr Nand Gopal alias Nandi, who continues to be on life support system four days after he was critically injured in a bomb blast, will undergo plastic surgery here for his b

Omar bin Laden, son of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, says his father is alive but maintains he doesn't know his whereabouts.

Omar told The Sun on Thursday: "My dad is on the Earth but I don't know

Aptos (California), July 15: India's Somdev Devvarman shrugged off an indifferent start to enter the second round of the $75,000 Challenger.

The second-seeded Somdev beat Yuichi Sugita 5-7, 6-2, 6-0

While the limelight is on Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's clemency petition pending for four years, the Indian president had once decided on a mercy plea in less than a week, reveals a Right to

The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a petition seeking initiation of contempt of court proceedings against HRD minister, Mr Kapil Sibal, for criticising judicial functioning in 1995.

An apex court b

The RJD president, Mr Lalu Prasad, on Thursday blamed the Chief Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, for the spread of Maoist activities in Bihar.

"Nitish Kumar is responsible for the spread of Maoist activit

New Delhi: The Union home minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, on Wednesday said that Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal should coordinate their anti-Maoist operations and form a Unified Command

New Delhi: The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has been killing over 500 civilians every year since 2004 after labelling many of them "police informers", the Union home minister, Mr P. Ch