A week after her return from abroad after surgery, Sonia Gandhi will be back to active party work by presiding over a meeting of Congress' Central Election Committee.

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The government on Thursday raised dearness allowance to central government employees by seven percent in view of persisting high inflation, said Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni.

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The director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Wednesday submitted former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's medical report to a Delhi court hearing the cash-for-votes scam.

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Banned agricultural pesticide DDT, which can cause cancer, is still widely found in human bodies, new research claims.

In a study of 146 human milk samples, most of the Persistent Organic Pollutants

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) continued questioning former Karnataka minister G. Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy for the second day on Wednesday in an illegal mining case.

The Southern Railway has announced setting up of an inquiry team to probe the Tuesday night's Tamil Nadu train accident which has claimed 10 lives.

The Chennai Beach-Vellore electric multiple unit (E

Utility vehicles major Mahindra Group's maiden aircraft, the C-NM5, has completed a successful test flight, the company announced here on Wednesday.

The 45-minute flight of the C-NM5, conducted Sep 1

An ayurvedic doctor in Bihar was pulled out of his clinic and shot dead by a group of suspected Maoists, police here said on Wednesday.

Dr Rajesh Kumar, 28, was shot dead late on Tuesday at Sheikhpur

The Southern Railway Wednesday cancelled and rescheduled trains from here following a collision of two trains near Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district which left about 10 people dead, an offici

"If I am gone, I am not dead. I have gone to free my mind..." These are lines in the memoir of a missing Australian youth that have been keeping the "journey of hope" alive for his elderly parents.

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