London: Former US vice president, Mr Al Gore, who is known for his climate conservation campaigns, has been accused of not switching off his car engine while he gave an hour-long lecture on environmen

Toronto, Oct. 29: Canada is set to disburse an ex-gratia payment to the Air India Kanishka victims before Christmas.

Though the Canadian immigration minister, Mr Jason Kenney, and the public safety m

The Karnataka high court on Friday upheld the disqualification of the 11 rebel legislators of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the state assembly by Speaker K.G. Bopaiah.

The Gujarat high court on Friday granted bail to former minister of state for home Amit Shah, who was arrested in the Sohrabbudin Sheikh staged shootout case in 2005.

Toronto: Canada is set to disburse an ex-gratia payment to the Air India Kanishka victims before Christmas.

Though Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews in t

Oct. 28: A handful of brain cells can play around with complex visual images on a computer screen, scientists have discovered. The study found that when volunteers had their brains connected to a comp

Kolkata: A major fire raged for three hours at the Presidency University, housed in the erstwhile Presidency College, here Friday destroying computers, documents and research material.

There were no

Hanoi: Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh of India and Wen Jiabao of China met here Friday on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit, setting the stage for the Chinese leader's visit to New Delhi later thi

Lucknow: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has once again put the Uttar Pradesh government in a piquant situation by travelling unannounced in a second class compartment on the Lokmanya Tilak Ex

Jakarta: Rescue workers were racing against time on Friday in their search for hundreds of people still missing on Indonesia's tsunami-hit Mentawai islands, as an official estimated that the death tol