India

Hewitt will go into the Australian Open as the player the top seeds will hope to avoid in the first round.

Dubbing hopes of forming a Third Front ahead of 2014 elections as an "illusion", BJP on Sunday said the party would dethrone "scam tainted" Congress government at the Centre and the BJD in Odisha.

Along with the Lok Sabha polls, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim will go to polls to elect their new assemblies.

Nagarjuna believes that the success of the film made him believe in his judgment.

Nadal opened his 2014 campaign by winning his first title of the year in defeating Monfils 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2 on Saturday.

Donald Forst, a veteran newsman who led New York Newsday and the Village Voice as they won Pulitzer Prizes and also worked at more than a dozen other newspapers, died Saturday at age 81.

The plane had departed Danbury, Connecticut, for a look of the Statue of Liberty and was on its way back when it experienced an onboard emergency.

Two bandits, wanted in many cases in the region, were arrested near Toll Plaza falling under Farah police station in Mathura on Saturday.

A petition was handed over on Saturday to the district magistrates of Shamli and Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh against the forced eviction of people living in camps after last September's riots left them displaced.

The top-ranked Williams carried her winning momentum from 2013 into the new season, beating No. 2-ranked Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 7-5.

New Zealand head coach Colin Batch is eyeing a top-six finish to be held at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium from January 10-18.

BJP and ABVP activists on Saturday blocked the National Highway 24 for over an hour, protesting against the alleged murder of a students' union leader of KGK Degree College here in Moradabad.

The Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric) on Saturday hinted that it was not averse to talks with the Aam Aadmi Party for an alliance in the state for next year's Lok Sabha elections.

Highly decomposed bodies of nine unidentified persons, who were blindfolded with hands tied up, have been found buried in a gorge near Chumukedima in Dimapur district of Nagaland.

Union minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal should follow the protocol and accept the official accommodation, vehicle and security provided to him.

The owner of India's oldest toy shop, Ram Chander & Sons, Satish Sundra tells about the transformation in the toys since the late 19th century.