In a fresh political offensive against Anna Hazare, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh accused the crusader of being associated with the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The BJP retorted

Special prayers were offered at Chandigarh's biggest church in Sector 19 on Sunday morning after Siddhartha Vashishtha, alias Manu Sharma, who is serving a life term for the murder of ramp model Jessi

Two men in their 20s have been detained for trying to forcefully enter the house of India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni here on Sunday, police said.

The two men, whose names have not been rev

Authorities at the state-run SSKM hospital on Saturday ordered an enquiry into the death of a patient after he was allegedly bitten by a rat.

A 53-year-old patient, who was admitted to the SSKM hospi

The Mullaperiyar Dam row, the stalled Kudankulam project, financial assistance and additional power to the state are some to the issues that are expected to be discussed by Tamil Nadu leaders with Pri

A Muslim in France has been jailed after he punched a nurse who tried to remove his wife's veil during childbirth.

Nassim Mimoune, 24, had already been expelled from the delivery room for branding th

Even as the ongoing debate about the Lokpal Bill reaches a crescendo, one man believes he has the answer to the malady of corruption that India suffers from.

A three-point movement stressing on educ

More than 20,000 people built the Taj Mahal in 22 years in the 17th century. Just 10 km away, another mausoleum that could possibly rival the Taj has taken a century and the labour of some six generat

China's central bank said on Saturday that it has signed a 10-billion-yuan ($1.6 billion) currency swap deal with the State Bank of Pakistan.

The agreement will last for three years and is extendable

Sales of new homes in the US rose 1.6 per cent between October and November to reach an annualized rate of 315,000, authorities said on Friday.

Yet the figure compares unfavourably with the level of