India

Fifty ascetics from Rajasthan headed, by bus, to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh to undertake the 84-kosi parikrama were arrested around midnight at the Chauma Shahpur border and sent to jail temporarily.

Halep beat Wozniacki 6-2, 7-5 in the first semi-final while Kvitova blasted Zakopalova 6-0, 6-1 in the other.

A man was arrested on Friday for allegedly murdering his 18-year-old daughter and dumping her body in the tool box of a school bus in Sector 5 here, police said.

After BJP leader Uma Bharti, BJP Vice President Prabhat Jha also defended Asaram on Friday, terming rape charges against him as a "Congress conspiracy".

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, on Friday, called for improvement in quality of education, human resources, working conditions and infrastructure to transform Guwahati University into a front-ranking institute of the world.

Police have claimed that they have arrested one accused and identified four others involved in the crime.

Anil plays the lead Jai Singh Rathod, the chief of anti-terrorist unit of India in '24', while Tisca plays his wife.

Priyanka Chopra has rubbished reports that she is doing an item song for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film 'Ram Leela'.

Faced with declining value of rupee and volatile exchange rate, India is exploring the possibility of bilateral trade with Iraq in domestic currencies, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said on Friday.

New York-based Goldman Sachs Managing Director Jason Lee was arrested on a charge of first-degree rape and was released on bail on Wednesday.

Admitting that illegal mining in Himachal Pradesh enjoyed political patronage, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday assured the state assembly that his government would soon clamp down on the mafia.

Cracking the whip, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday suspended for at least five sittings 12 members from Andhra Pradesh who have been agitating against decision to form Telangana and paralysing the House since the current session began on August 5.

Jammu and Kashmir government has sought Rs 84 crore from the Centre under the Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF) to boost development of the state's backward districts.

Blaming Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil for the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, the Opposition on Friday demanded his resignation in the wake of the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old photojournalist.

Five persons have been arrested after two mixed-metal idols worth Rs 17 crore were found in their possession in Bahraich, police said on Friday. The arrests were made on Thursday night on a tip off, Additional SP, Vikas Kumar Vaidya told reporters.

The film's technical credits feature more than 100 Indian names working with different animation studios.