'Parkash Singh Badal to be chief minister'
Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal Thursday said that his father, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, will continue in the top job after the SAD-BJP combine was voted back to power in t
Uneasy calm in Haryana's Hisar district
An uneasy calm prevailed Thursday morning in Haryana's Hisar district, which saw violence during a Jat community agitation over the past two days leaving one youth dead and several injured.
Tensions
Man to give wife million roses on Women's Day
Based on a romantic pop hit from Soviet times, a Kazakh man has ordered one million red roses for his wife on International Women's Day that will be observed on Thursday.
The man had a spat with his
My son was thrown out of MV Prabhu Daya: Father
The father of 24-year-old Prasobh Sugathan, second officer on MV Prabhu Daya, the merchant ship under investigation for ramming into a Kerala fishing boat, denied that his son tried to commit suicide
Norway killer officially charged with terrorism
Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik has been officially charged with acts of terror over the 77 people he killed in twin attacks in Oslo, a prosecutor said.
The 33-year-old extremist also faces c
Mukesh Ambani richest among 48 Indian billionaires
Reliance India chairman Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.3 billion emerged as the world's richest Indian in the Forbes list of billionaires featuring 48 Indians.
India's top ten included Savitri
Former DMK minister's house raided
DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu minister for information and publicity Parithi Ilamvazhuthi's house was raided by vigilance officials on Thursday on charges of accumulating assets disproportionate to
No unilateral military action against Syria: Obama
US President Barack Obama has said it would be a 'mistake' to think that America could take unilateral military action in Syria, and that there was a simple solution to the crisis there.
"For us to t
Russia unveils robot for space missions
Russia has built an android -- a robot resembling a human being -- to work in orbit.
The robot, S-400, will be Russia's first space robot in more than two decades, the Izvestia daily said. It can per
Jat agitators block Hisar-Delhi road, rail tracks
Tension ran high in this Haryana district as members of the Jat community, seeking quotas in government jobs, blocked the national highway to Delhi and railway tracks Wednesday, a day after a youth wa