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Six tehsils in Thane district of Mumbai may be declared as drought-affected region by the Maharashtra government.

At least 44 prisoners, all serving life sentence, of Tihar Jail in Delhi have gone missing in the last six years.

Even without a formal bid surfacing for the venture, Essar's stake has become the most sought after possession.

India has pressed Myanmar to adopt a pro-active approach against the various insurgent groups of the Northeast.

Boucher says it is unlikely that the 123 bilateral agreement would have a reference to India's relations with Iran.

All India Football Federation has named Mahindra United's Surkumar Singh as Player of the Year for 2006.

The Sensex succumbed to profit-taking and ended in the red with a fall of 41.80 points at 13,340.21.

Rap megastar Eminem and his high school sweetheart divorced for a second time, less than a year after they remarried.

Malaysia has unveiled high-tech public toilets as part of a campaign to wash away bad toilet habits.

The UK Takeover Panel has set a January 30 deadline for TATA and CSN to make revised offers for Corus.

A Libyan court convicted five nurses and a doctor of deliberately infecting 400 children with the HIV virus.

The suspect killer was apparently a regular user of an Internet blog site, on which he is photographed in bizarre poses.

Urmila Matondkar has recorded her first song for a music album but says she does not plan to take up singing full-time.

Audi expects to assemble over 300 units of its luxury sedan A6 by 2008 and sell about 3,000 units by 2010.

The markets had a fairly volatile session after languishing in the negative terrain for most of the day.

The Discovery crew is prepared or a fourth space-walk to try once more to retract a sticky solar array.