Anti-Narcotics sleuths today made one of the biggest drug seizures in the national capital by intercepting a cargo from Mexico carrying Rs 15 crore of fine quality cocaine.

It has not even been a week since India won the Champions Trophy but captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the team is done with the celebrations and firmly focussed on the tri-series against West Indies and Sri Lanka starting here today.

The annual Amarnath Yatra began today amid tight security, with pilgrims from both Baltal and Pahalgam base camps starting their journey for the 3880-metre-high cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas.

People living in the villages of flood-ravaged Uttarakhand are now left with the daunting task of rebuilding their damaged houses and coping with depleting rations.

Against the backdrop of Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah slamming him on the issue of revocation of special status to the state, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani today advised him not to use words like “cheating and deceiving” and clarified that his party has always been opposed to Article 370.

Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde has stoked a controversy by his candid admission about spending Rs 8 crore on his 2009 Lok Sabha campaign, with Maharashtra home minister R.R. Patil demanding that the Election Commission take cognisance and decide on whether to allow him to contest again.

Gold prices today tumbled to a 23-month low by losing Rs 1,150 to Rs 25,650 per ten grams in the national capital on heavy selling by stockists and investors, triggered by a steep fall in overseas markets.

A day after gangster Abu Salem was shot at in Taloja jail, four security personnel were today suspended pending a high-level probe even as his lawyers are planning to move Portuguese authorities for his repatriation.

On his maiden visit to Mumbai after his elevation as BJP’s election campaign committee chief, Narendra Modi on Thursday reached out to Shiv Sena, which had slammed him for his “parochial” rescue effor

In line with equity market, the rupee advanced further by 36 paise to 59.83 per dollar in late morning trade today on persistent selling of the US currency by banks and exporters.