India

Australian tennis players Lleyton Hewitt and Bernard Tomic both have been knocked out of the Shanghai Masters in their first-round matches.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected the Talwars' plea seeking the reports of tests conducted on their helpers.

Hulkenberg's chances of replacing Raikkonen at Lotus were boosted after the Formula One team said weight would not be a major factor in their choice of driver.

Pankaj Advani is skipping the World Billiards for the first time in his career and has instead preferred to compete in the International Championship.

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will seek marketing approval for the world's first malaria vaccine next year after trial data showed the shot significantly cut cases of the disease in African children.

Kolkata: Two senior students of a hotel management institute in Kolkata were arrested on Tuesday following a complaint of ragging by a student from Britain, police said.

One hundred and sixty couples, who were displaced after last month's riots and were living in a relief camp, tied the knot at a mass wedding at Shahpur in Muzaffarnagar.

The Allahabad High Court (HC) on Monday put a ban on the immersion of idols of Gods and Goddesses in Ganga and Yamuna rivers in Uttar Pradesh.

He also said that the Army commander will soon address the media on the latest developments in the Keran operation.

Sharman Joshi is happy at the success of 'Grand Masti', which has crossed the Rs.100 crore mark in three weeks.

Roger Federer and Zhang Ze needed just 48 minutes to beat Kevin Anderson and Dmitry Tursunov 6-2, 6-1 in the opening round.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi is on a one-day visit to her Parliamentary constituency of Raebareli on Tuesday.

The government will have to rein in spending and cut subsidies to meet its fiscal deficit target, the country's Finance Minister said on Monday, underlining that an austerity drive will not be blown off course by an election due next year.

The 26-year-old Russian has not played since losing to Sloane Stephens in the second round of the Western and Southern Open in August.

The Indian Air Force is all set to independently manufacture its first aircraft and the task has been entrusted to 11 Base Repair Depot (BRD) of the Head Quarters Maintenance Command (MC) in Nashik, a top IAF official said.

Noting that farmers are suffering due to problems in the food supply chain, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, on Monday, said there is need for ensuring better compensation for the farmers against their produce.