The Centre and several state governments today came in for sharp criticism by the Supreme Court for their failure to file status report on the issue of missing children with the bench saying that nobody seems to be concerned about them.

Jammu and Kashmir police has registered a case and identified several Facebook users who had posted abusive and threatening messages on the page of the only all-girls rock band of the Valley.

Maintaining that its move to build three more dams on Brahmaputra river in Tibet will not affect the flows to down stream areas, China on Monday said it is in “communication and cooperation” with India over cross-border river issues.

Scientists have developed a robot that moves only when it won’t be seen or heard and can sneak up on animals to film them in the wild.

Archaeologists have unveiled pictures of a brightly-coloured glass necklace believed to be from Ancient Egypt found in a 2,400-year-old burial mound in Siberia.

Nasa’s Curiosity rover has used its drill system for the first time to hammer into a flat slab of Martian rock to gather samples which will determine if the red planet once hosted life.

With the four-Test series against India round the corner, Shane Watson will look to touch up his batting skills at international level following his inclusion in Australia’s 13-member one-day side for the next two matches against the West Indies.

Senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar will release a book that traces his teammate Yuvraj Singh’s successful battle with cancer.

Underlining that Pakistan and India are standing at the “crossroads of history”, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf today said the bilateral peace process should be “uninterrupted” so that it can produce results.

Asserting that none of the justice Verma Committee recommendations has been rejected, the government today said the ordinance on sexual violence against women was promulgated to meet the “universal demand” for a law at the earliest on the basis of the broadest consensus available at the moment.