India beat Australia by an innings and 135 runs to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series here today.

Brief Scores: India: 503 all out

A low-intensity crude cocktail bomb exploded Monday outside the hotel where President Pranab Mukherjee is staying during a general strike called by the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami in protest against the conviction of three of its top leaders for 1971 war crimes.

Kate Middleton could be distantly related to The Lady in Red singer Chris de Burgh, it has emerged.
The Duchess of Cambridge’s family tree on her dad Michael Middleton’s side can apparently be traced back to former King of England Edward III and de Burgh is an ancestor of 14th century Irish heiress Elizabeth de Burgh, who married Edward III’s son, Lionel of Antwerp.

Red cells in blood stored longer than three weeks gradually lose the flexibility required to squeeze through the body’s smallest capillaries to deliver oxygen to tissue, a new study has claimed.

Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber is reportedly heading for a stint in rehab after his recent wild partying antics. The Baby hitmaker’s partying behaviour is said to be getting out of hand when his recent birthday venue smelt of marijuana after he left the bash.

“Beer goggles”, the phenomenon that a few drinks can make you see even plain faces as more attractive than they are, is just a myth, a brain expert has claimed.

Women may have smaller brains than men, but they are more efficient at completing a task, a new study has claimed. It has been a mystery for scientists why women show no difference in intelligence, although their brains are eight per cent smaller than men’s.

Australia were 74 for two in their second innings against India on the third day of the second cricket Test here today.

Three police officials, who arrested one of the accused in the December 16 gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus here, testified as prosecution witness before the fast-track court today.

Failure to pay excise duty and service tax could lead to arrest of defaulters, as per the provisions proposed in the Finance Bill 2013 introduced by finance minister P. Chidambaram in the Lok Sabha.