He is smiling from ear to ear after becoming the youngest Indian boxer to strike gold at the Asian Championships, but teen sensation Shiva Thapa hardly has any time to rest on the laurels as he has already sets his sights on the world championships to be held in October.

Our closest cousins — the Neanderthals — may have shared speech and language with modern humans, a new research suggests.

Earth may have been warm enough to support life more than 3 billion years ago, even though the Sun was 20 per cent dimmer than today, a new study has found.

The Uttarakhand government today put the number of missing people in last month’s tragedy at 5,360 and announced that pilgrimage to Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri shrines will resume by September 30 even as fresh rains pounded several parts of the state and claimed 11 lives.

BJP today sought to know why the government had “suppressed” information about Chinese incursions into Ladakh in mid-June and said the Manmohan Singh dispensation should clarify if it is reassessing the situation.

The defence ministry has handed over some documents received from an Italian court to the CBI to verify if there was any breach of contractual obligations by Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland in the Rs 3,600 crore deal for 12 helicopters, official sources said today.

Government today reacted cautiously to a Supreme Court verdict on disqualification of lawmakers, saying it will go through the detailed judgement to see its impact on the politics of the country and hold consultations before deciding on the next step.

Days after the Cabinet approved doubling of natural gas price from April next year, the finance ministry has written to oil ministry suggesting setting of a ceiling or an upper limit for the rates.

German luxury carmaker Audi today said it will hike prices across models in India by up to four per cent, a maximum of Rs 4.42 lakh on its R8 model, with effect from July 15 to offset the impact of rupee depreciation and rise in input costs.

The BSE benchmark sensex today lost over 145 points to close at a fresh one-week low, pulled down by fag-end selling in bluechips, including RIL, M&M and Bajaj Auto, in line with weak trends in Asian and European markets.