The UN has launched a new online database to showcase successful strategies that businesses and communities are using to adapt to climate change while simultaneously increasing their profits and using

India, Brazil, Germany and Japan have made a joint bid for the expansion of the UN Security Council in both the permanent and non-permanent categories of membership.

Collectively known as G-4, the fo

Summons have not been served on Ravi Ruia and four other corporate honchos, defence counsel told a special CBI court hearing the 2G spectrum scam on Friday.

The special Central Bureau of Investigatio

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday said the government will lend all possible support to the two-year-old abandoned baby who is being treated for multiple injuries at AIIMS but continues to battle for life.

Stung by a Siberian court’s rejection of their plea seeking a ban on Bhagavad Gita and branding it extremist literature, Russian prosecutors are now planning to move a higher court for appeal. Insisting that the Russian translation of the Hindu text “Bhagavad Gita As It Is” should be banned for promoting “social discord”, prosecutors in the Siberian city of Tomsk have moved the local court seeking more time to file an appeal.

Squash mom Natalie Grinham taught her opponent Dipika Pallikal a thing or two about court coverage and strength beating her Indian rival 11-4, 11-3, 11-3 in the women's final of the Tournament of Cham

Novelist Vikram Seth on Thursday accused the government of “knuckling under” an “enforced disgrace because of power and politics” and “misusing” religion ahead of Assembly polls over author Salman Rushdie being forced to cancel his visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival. Iterating that the Indian republic would not be allowed to be hijacked by fear, Seth said: “God and his prophets do not need bullies to defend themselves.”

In a breather for External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed the probe by the Karnataka Lokayukta police into the de-reservation of 11,620 sq km of forest land for mini

History was made on Thursday when Flight Lieutenant Sneha Shekhawat, a woman Indian Air Force (IAF) officer, led a contingent of 144 airmen at the 63rd Republic Day parade down the Rajpath.

This is something an air passenger will least expect on a flight even of an Indian carrier -- a Bollywood jig by a foreign crew, all dressed in dazzling salwar kameez and traditional Indian attires!