By Alkesh Sharma Chandigarh, July 5 (IANS) Not many years ago it was a university department that students applied to only to avail themselves of hostel accommodation and library facilities. But there has ...

Mumbai, July 4 (IANS) Passengers aboard a Saudia airliner on a Jeddah-Mumbai flight had a scare when its tyres burst during landing at Mumbai airport Saturday evening, an official said. The Saudia flight, ...

Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) Nine people were killed Saturday when a speeding mini bus skidded off a bridge turned slippery by rain water and fell about 50 feet between two platforms ...

Mohali (Punjab), July 4 (IANS) Punjab police Saturday claimed to have busted an international drug trafficking racket with the arrest of four Nigerian youths here. According to district police chief Jatinder Singh Aulakh, ...

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Six sharpshooters of Chhota Shakeel - one of India's most wanted gangsters - were arrested from different parts of the capital Saturday, police said adding "some VVIPs" ...

Bhubaneswar(Orissa): Athagarh MLA Ramesh Rauto's long 14 days drama on absconding was over. Rames Rauto withdrawn his former appliction to resign from MLA post. Today morning around 4pm Ramesh Rauto presented ...

Jalandhar (Punjab), July 4 (IANS) A 45-year-old woman - who was separated from her husband and apparently hard pressed for finances - committed suicide along with her three children here Saturday, police ...

Lucknow, July 4 (IANS) An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer has been named in an allegedly illegal child adoption case in Uttar Pradesh following National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) directions, a police ...

While the world is still mourning the death of the the pop icon Michael Jackson, the grief of Orianthi Panagaris is no less, as she is among the person who came close ...

Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) Nine people were killed Saturday when a speeding mini bus skidded off a bridge turned slippery by rain water and fell about 50 feet between two platforms of ...

Patna, July 4 (IANS) Suspected Maoists Saturday hijacked two buses in Gaya district after letting the passengers get off, police said. The Maoists stopped the two private vehicles near Dumaria and asked the ...

Lucknow, July 4 (IANS) Students and teachers of Lucknow's City Montessori School (CMS) - the world's largest school in terms of enrolment - have appealed to the chief justice of India to ...

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Though there have been 251 murders and 226 cases of rape, the crime rate in the national capital has gone down on the whole in the first ...

Ghaziabad, July 4 (IANS) Barely 12 hours after Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee stressed safety measures in her rail budget, a passenger train collided with a static goods train in Ghaziabad late ...

Ghaziabad, July 4 (IANS) The family of Ranvir Singh, the Ghaziabad youth who was shot dead by police in Dehradun, Saturday said he was innocent and denied he had any criminal ...

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Saturday started 100 community colleges to bring a "learning revolution" among under-privileged students across the country. Launching the community college programme ...

Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) At least seven people died after the bus in which they were travelling fell off a bridge on the rail tracks near the Howrah station in West Bengal ...

Dehradun, July 4 (IANS) The death of a youth from Ghaziabad at the hands of police here led to demonstrations on the streets of Dehradun Saturday, with his family alleging he was ...

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New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to pay over Rs.1 million as compensation to a woman whose husband was killed by ...

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has issued notice to Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati after two men arrested by the Delhi Police claimed they are innocent but are being ...

Hyderabad, July 4 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh is now mulling fixing an upper limit on the fees charged by private schools. A panel constituted by the state government has recommended that private schools ...

Patna, July 4 (IANS) There was palpable tension in a town in Bihar's West Champaran district Saturday, a day after a suspected thief died in police custody, triggering violent protests as people ...

Hyderabad, July 4 (IANS) A panel constituted by the Andhra Pradesh government has recommended that private schools in urban areas should not charge more than Rs.24,000 per annum as tuition fee up ...

Raipur, July 4 (IANS) A man in a Chhattisgarh village allegedly murdered his wife and two young sons before killing himself, police said Saturday. Vishwanath Rathia, a resident of Samarsigha village in Raigarh ...

Srinagar, July 4 (IANS) Two militants were killed and two soldiers wounded in an ongoing gunbattle in the Wedder Bala forest area of Kupwara district in north Kashmir, police said Saturday. Security forces ...

Dharamsala, July 4 (IANS) Thousands of Tibetan exiles are expected to assemble in this Himachal Pradesh town Monday for celebrations to mark the 74th birthday of their spiritual leader the Dalai ...

Lucknow, July 4 (IANS) A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and his two aides have been booked for allegedly raping a 25-year-old married woman in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, police said ...

Panaji, July 4 (IANS) The increasing number of fatal road accidents in Goa has forced the influential church to issue an appeal for safe driving and for riders to wear helmets. The ...

By Sujeet Kumar Raipur, July 4 (IANS) Maoist rebels extort up to Rs.300 crore every year in Chhattisgarh from traders of forest products, transporters and iron ore mining firms, says Chief Minister Raman ...