A Right to Information (RTI) activist was shot and seriously wounded on Friday by some assailants in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, police said.

RTI activist Razi Hasan was battling for life at a hosp

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed a bill to protect children from sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography and to establish special courts for the speedy trial of such offences.

The house p

A CBI court on Friday granted bail to former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy in an illegal mining case in Andhra Pradesh.

Janardhan Reddy, however, will not be released immediately as he is c

North Korea held at least three public executions of people charged with cannibalism in the last few years, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.

Some North Koreans ate and sold human flesh during

The US and NATO will proceed with its European missile defence programme despite Russia's concerns while continuing to seek Moscow's cooperation on the issue.

It was stated by US Assistant Secretary

In a setback to former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Central Bureau of Investiagtion (CBI) to probe the allegations that the Prerna Trust managed b

Sixteen people were killed and 20 went missing after floods ravaged Afghanistan's Takhar province, an official said.

Heavy rains and flood took place in Takhar province, 245 km north of capital Kabul

Canadian prisoners will be paying more for room and board next year, Canada's tough-on-crime Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said on Wednesday.

Offenders serving two or more years behind bars now pa

At least 29 people were killed and 103 wounded on Thursday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up here, a minister said.

The toll in the blasts that rocked the capital Damascus at 7.55 a.m. is 2

Football players who fool referees to score goals or to obtain penalties or fouls are committing a sin, two Saudi religious scholars have said.

"Cheating is deceiving and usurping other people's righ