A 23-year-old history-sheeter has been arrested for allegedly abducting and torturing his estranged wife for nine days and leaving nearly 100 cuts on her body with a razor blade, the police said.

Former Test batsman V.V.S. Laxman was on Sunday effusive in his praise for India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who led the national team to back-to-back title triumphs at the Champions Trophy in England and the tri-nation series in the West Indies recently.

India’s new ODI opening combination of Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma might have clicked, but former chief selector Kiran More is wary of dismissing the comeback chances of senior batsmen Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir.

The title of the 24th film in the James Bond series will reportedly be Devil May Care, after the novel of the same name written to commemorate the 100th anniversary of 007’s creator Ian Fleming’s birth.

In a wacky invention, silicone rubber lips that prevent wrinkles by exercising facial muscles have been developed in Japan. Wearing the lips-shaped mouthpiece helps to exercise 12 facial expression muscles and turn back the clock, its makers claim.

German inventors have developed a new hi-tech pen that gently vibrates every time it senses a spelling mistake or sloppy handwriting.

A vintage Formula One car driven by racing legend Juan Fangio has set a new world record after it sold for £19.6 million, becoming the most valuable car ever sold at an auction.

Delhi BJP on Saturday termed as misleading the announcement of implementation of food security scheme by the city government and said it will meet the same fate as other schemes like Rajiv Ratna Awas yojna, Annashri yojna and Antyodaya yojna.

Controversial Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, who was a key figure in the Bofors payoffs scandal, has died in Milan following a stroke.

Bhutan’s main Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday stormed to power getting two-third majority in the second parliamentary elections that was dogged by the controversy over India’s withdrawal of subsidy on kerosene and cooking gas.