US puts India, China, Pakistan on IPR watch list
The United States has put India, China, Pakistan and ten other countries on a priority watch list for allegedly providing insufficient protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights or lim
Lok Sabha adjourns over Telangana row
The Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon on Wednesday following slogan shouting by some members to demand the carving out of a separate state of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh.
Speaker Meira Kumar asked
Kabul fighting over, all attackers killed
All Taliban attackers have been killed and the fighting inside a residential compound used by foreign staff of international organizations here is over, authorities said.
"Afghan Security Forces led
Sensex up 71 points in afternoon trade
A benchmark index for Indian equities markets was trading 70.90 points higher in the afternoon session on Wednesday, led by good buying support for consumer durables, bank and information technology (
Rare illness turns two Britons into kids
Two Britons seem to be ageing in reverse after contracting a bizarre condition which is rapidly making them behave like kids.
The two brothers -- Matthew, 39, and Michael Clark, 42 -- contracted term
Hyundai Motor's April sales up 4.9 per cent
Passenger car major Hyundai Motor on Wednesday reported a growth of 4.9 per cent in its April sales, including exports, that stood at 52,057 units compared to 54,606 units sold in the corresponding mo
BJP, JD-U to meet on presidential candidate
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders were set to meet their Janata Dal-United (JD-U) counterparts on Wednesday, a day after the allies differed over the presidential candidate, sources said.
The JD-U
Thousands of lawyers stop work in Bihar
Thousands of lawyers in Bihar on Wednesday abstained from work to protest against the arrest of a colleague.
The Bihar Bar Council had asked all advocates to observe a strike over the arrest of Anil
Two dozen injured as elephant runs amok
Close to two dozen people were injured on Wednesday as an elephant participating in the Thrissur Pooram festival ran amok, police said.
Inspector General of Police S. Gopinath told agencies that none
Coal workers threaten to go on strike
A trade union associated with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday threatened to go on strike from July 10 against alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks to private firms and