A day after the militant strike in Srinagar left eight soldiers dead, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the entire country is standing united against terrorists and they will not succeed in their designs.

Rain and fog today delayed rescue operations in Uttarakhand where the death toll in the calamity rose to 807 with 127 more bodies recovered from Kedarnath even as security forces began the process of cremating decaying corpses lying in the shrine premises.

Tainted cricketer S. Sreesanth became the first of the four cricketers to depose before Board of Control for India’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit chief Ravi Sawani at a city hotel here on Monday.

The world’s most mysterious medieval manuscript, which dates back to the early 1400s, may actually hold a genuine message, a new study has claimed.

Modified citrus pectin — developed from the skin of citrus fruits — could act as a potent anti-cancer therapy, a new research has found.

Scientists have discovered a new species of burying beetle from the Solomon Islands archipelago. Burying beetles are well known to most naturalists because of their large size, striking black and red colours, and interesting reproductive behaviours — they bury small vertebrate carcasses which their offspring eat in an underground crypt, guarded by both parents.

Global efforts to improve the quality of air could be resulting in more hurricanes as a side-effect, according to a new study. “Anthropogenic aerosols” — tiny airborne particles emitted by vehicles, factories and households — helped keep a lid on the number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic for most of the twentieth century, according to the study by the UK’s national weather service.

Nigella Lawson is reportedly preparing to divorce husband Charles Saatchi after he physically assaulted her at a restaurant. Saatchi was photographed putting his hands around the TV chef’s neck during an argument at a London restaurant earlier this month.

Curse of the spinning statue! In some eerie news, a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue has puzzled curators at Manchester museum after the relic started to mysteriously spin 180 degrees on its own.

Scientists have for the first time used brain scans to identify emotions such as happiness, anger, sadness or even envy that a person may be experiencing.