New Delhi, July 10: The ministry of external affairs has also succumbed to the charms of the little bird. It has created a Twitter account and got several followers already.

In probably the first eff

Johannesburg: There is a strong possibility that national icon Nelson Mandela will make an appearance at Sunday's World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands at Soccer City, a source working for

Haflong (Assam), July 10: A large cache of arms and ammunition, including 28 AK-47 rifles belonging to separatist outfit Dima Halam Daogah’s Jewel Gorolsa faction (DHD-J), has been recovered by secu

Islamabad: Pakistan did not oppose the India-US civil nuclear deal and it expects similar pacts from other countries, the President, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, has said.

"When India was going with the civ

New Delhi, July 10: The Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, on Saturday asked the minister of state for coal, statistics and programme implementation, Mr Sriprakash Jaiswal, to make inquiries into t

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the longest spaceflight record (195 days) for female space travellers, will head for the stars once again in June 2012.

A week after national security adviser Shiv Shankar Menon visited Beijing, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao held closed-door talks with the Dalai Lama here on Saturday, with a Tibetan official saying “issues of common interest” were discussed. The talks at the official palace of the Tibetan spiritual leader lasted about 90 minutes, said an official.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister K. Rosaiah on Saturday said Congress MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy can dream and aspire for the chief minister’s post and that there is a method to it. “Jagan is a young boy with a future. He needs proper advice. He can dream, aspire and try for the CM’s post but there is a method to get it,” Mr Rosaiah said in an interview to a TV news channel.

Maoist rebels on Saturday night fired at a police station in a remote pocket of Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, police said. No casualty has been reported.

"Maoists fired three-four rounds from

India's burgeoning population has seen a five-fold increase over the last 100 years and will surpass that of China by 2050.

Projections made by the Government show that while India's population grew