Seven minority Shia Muslims, including a prominent community leader, have been shot dead by four unidentified men in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

Giving a message of hope to consumers, government Saturday said onion prices would come down in the next 15-20 days with the arrival of new crops from various southern states.

Pakistan has assured the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it was moving forward with eliminating the negative list on trade with New Delhi and granting the most favoured nation (MFN) status to India as part of its overall trade policy, a media report said Saturday.

Markets ended higher for the second consecutive week as the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark Sensex surged by 650 points to conclude at a three-week high of 19,270.06 on sustained buying mainly in banking, PSU and refinery sectors.

Pro-Telangana forces Saturday pelted stones at police and employees from Andhra-Rayalaseema regions in a bid to thwart a rally organised here by AP Non-Gazetted Officers Association even as the 24-hour bandh called by the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) disrupted life in the state capital.

Four persons, including two civilians, were killed when militants attacked a CRPF camp in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday.

Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is no longer consumed with vanity when it comes to seeing herself on the big screen, insisting she’s finally at peace with the ageing process at 55.

“I didn’t choose Kashmir, Kashmir chose me.” This is how renowned international music conductor Zubin Mehta reacted brushing aside controversies over his concert on the banks of the Dal lake in Srinagar on Saturday.

Scientists seeking to understand the forces at work beneath the Earth’s surface have detected previously unknown “fingers” of heat, some of them thousands of miles long, in our planet’s upper mantle. The discovery helps explain the “hotspot volcanoes” that give birth to island chains such as Hawaii and Tahiti.

Furious with ace shooter Abhinav Bindra’s sustained campaign against tainted officials in the Indian Olympic Association, the suspended body’s president Abhey Singh on Friday launched a stinging personal attack on the former Olympic gold-medallist.