In a freak accident, a 25-year-old girl died after being pushed from the first floor of her house by her two brothers when she tried to prevent the two from beating their mother, police said on Friday

With the Election Commission (EC) having sounded an alert in view of the Rajya Sabha polls, the income tax department in Jharkhand on Friday seized Rs.2.15 crore from a vehicle on the outskirts of thi

The demand for a separate Telangana state disrupted the Lok Sabha for the fifth consecutive day on Friday, leading to another adjournment as some MPs alleged that the central government was insensitiv

Stressing on closer coordination between industry and the armed forces, army chief Gen. V.K. Singh said on Friday that dependence on foreign firms must be reduced.

One person was killed and three people were injured in a fire at a multi-storey residential building in Kolkata early on Friday, police said.

The fire broke out in South Kolkata's Golpark area. Polic

A section of Pakistan's Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) website was hacked on Friday, with a media report describing this as the handiwork of 'Indians".

A Rs 7 billion ($77 million) 'drug quota allotment' scam allegedly involving Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani' son has surfaced in Pakistan, Geo News reported.

A three-member Supreme Court bench hea

The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the government to clarify whether the press release issued on March 5 containing allegations against Lt. Gen. (retired) Tejinder Singh, was issued by the governmen

Incidents of 'witch hunting' increased in Assam in 2011 with Kokrajhar district in lower Assam recording the highest number of witch hunting-related deaths in the year, a lawmaker said on Thursday.

T

US President Barack Obama hopes to reach a compromised agreement with Russia on the American missile defence system in Europe next year or in 2014, Josh Earnest, White House's deputy press secretary,