India

Sri Lanka, under attack for human rights abuses, on Thursday sought equal treatment from the UN for all countries.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who was taken ill on Monday, was back in the Lok Sabha on Thursday to attend the debate on Land Acquisition Bill but did not participate in voting the legislation which was being pushed by the National Advisory Council hea...

Flood situation in Bihar worsened on Thursday with major rivers, including Ganga, Gandak and Sone in spate following heavy rains over the past 24 hours, officials said.

Four people were killed on Thursday when a speeding car from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh heading towards New Delhi toppled after one of its tyres burst, police said.

Olympic bronze medal winner in boxing, MC Mary Kom was presented a cheque of Rs 50 lakh by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at a function held in Bhopal.

Hailing the arrest of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal as a big success for intelligence agencies, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil on Thursday said a state ATS team would soon leave to interrogate him and seek his custody.

Children of divorced or those born to illegally wedded wife of a deceased All India Services (AIS)  officer are entitled to get family pensions, according to new rules notified by the central government.

Stephens needed only 58 minutes to reach the third round as she beat Urszula Radwanska 6-1, 6-1.

'Madras Cafe' is based on the Sri Lankan civil war and shows the assassination of former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi.

In an interview to the CNN, Republican Senator Bob Corker urged Obama to call Congress back to Washington to seek approval for possible action in Syria.

Dabholkar, who led a campaign against anti-superstition, was shot dead while on a morning walk.

Expressing concern over the fall in the rupee against the US Dollar, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said he was in touch with the Centre for a stimulus to the industries to prevent job losses.

A local court has sentenced five persons to life imprisonment in a more than three-year-old murder case.

A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide today by setting herself ablaze in her maternal grandfather's house in Kavinagar area of the district.

Ajay-Kajol tied the knot in 1999 and they have two children - daughter Nysa and son Yug.

A local court on Wednesday framed charges against the four accused in the August 2007 twin bomb blasts in Hyderabad, that left behind 42 people dead.