Valentine's Day is round the corner and Agra's tourist police are on alert. Expecting a huge rush at the 17th century monument to love, the Taj Mahal, police are gearing up to guard against any mischi

Standard & Poor's rating agency has downgraded 34 Italian banks.

The banks whose ratings were cut included the country's biggest bank Unicredit, which was downgraded from A to BBB+ with a negative ou

With the pro-Gorkhaland Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leadership threatening to revive movement for a separate state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday chose to blame the central g

Authorities on Saturday gave the all-clear signal and calmed the panic in Meghalaya after clinical tests on dead pigeons proved negative for bird flu, a veterinary official said on Saturday.

"The blo

Harish Sharma, former basketball international and chief executive of Basketball Federation of India (BFI), died here on Friday night. He was 53.

"The BFI mourns his death and pays condolences to Sha

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday said the city government will try to make the capital slum free at the earliest.

"The Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation m

A 12-year-old boy died here when he reportedly tried to imitate a suicide scene he had seen in a movie, police said Thursday.

The Class 5 student of a Sarvodaya school, Suhail, was found hanging from

West Indies star batsman Chris Gayle struck an unbeaten 44-ball 101 to guide Barisal Burners to a 10-wicket win over Sylhet Royals in a Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) match at the Sher-e Bangla Natio

India on Friday tested a ballistic missile interceptor from a defence base in Odisha to create a shield against incoming enemy missiles, a senior defence official said.

The indigenous Advanced Air De

The residences and business premises of two former DMK ministers in Tamil Nadu were raided on Friday morning for allegedly having assets disproportionate to their known sources of income, said an offi