Mirza Himayat Baig, the lone convicted accused in the German Bakery blast case, was today sentenced to death by a Pune sessions court.

Pakistani authorities today changed the chiefs of all police stations in the federal capital and beefed up security around former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s farmhouse hours after a court cancelled his bail and directed police to arrest him.

Cocaine worth about Rs 24 crore in the street market has been seized from the cargo terminal of Indira Gandhi International Airport by custom officials.

Rajasthan Royals captain Rahul Dravid has brushed aside talks that temperamental pacer S. Sreesanth was rested for the match against Mumbai Indians to avoid a possible confrontation with Harbhajan Singh, saying it was tactical move aimed at managing the workload of players.

Actress Anna Friel has started drinking an unusual tea made of curry leaves to preserve the natural colour of her hair.

Asserting that India can absorb $50 billion foreign investment annually, finance minister P. Chidambaram has said the downturn in Indian economy was temporary and growth will return to eight per cent in two years.

A day after actor Sanjay Dutt was granted four weeks time to surrender, three other convicts including his friend Yusuf Mohsin Nulwalla also got a month’s time by the Supreme Court to turn themselves in to serve their remaining sentence in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf was today ordered to be arrested immediately by a court here over the sacking of 60 judges during emergency rule in 2007, but amid high drama he fled from the premises despite thick security blanket.

An extraordinary 34-carat “Princie” diamond from the mines of Golconda in South India, once owned by the world’s richest man — the last Nizam of Hyderabad — has sold for a record $39 million at an auc

Moms-to-be, please note! Light drinking during pregnancy may not harm the baby’s behavioural or cognitive development, a new study has claimed. The study analysed data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a study of infants born in the UK between 2000-2002, to assess whether light drinking (up to two units of alcohol per week) in pregnancy was linked to unfavourable developmental outcomes in 7-year-old children.