New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The itinerary of the Sri Lanka's tour of India, which begins next month, was released by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Friday. Sri ...

Lucknow, Oct 14 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Shekhar Tiwari, prime accused in the 2008 murder of a Public Works Department (PWD) official in Auraiya, had tried ...

Bhubaneswar, Sep 4 (IANS) While mourning the death of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash, the brother of an Indian Air Force (IAF) officer who had died ...

Lucknow, Aug 27 (IANS) In a surprise move, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Thursday told her partymen to stop collecting funds for her birthday celebrations with immediate effect. The Bahujan Samaj Party ...

Lucknow, Aug 1 (IANS) A key witness in the case relating to the murder of engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta, and involving Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Shekhar Tiwari, ...

Lucknow, July 29 (IANS) A dismissed Uttar Pradesh police sub-nspector, one of the 11 suspects in a government engineer's murder in December last year, was Wednesday sent to jail for interrogation ...

Lucknow, July 25 (IANS) Sub-inspector Hoshiar Singh, one of the 11 suspects in PWD engineer Manoj Gupta's murder, was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district Saturday after absconding for seven months, ...

Lucknow, July 25 (IANS) Sub-inspector Hoshiar Singh, one of the 11 suspects in PWD engineer Manoj Gupta's murder, was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district Saturday after absconding for seven months, ...

Toronto, July 13 (IANS) A Canadian author, whose biography of the late King of Pop titled "Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson" hits the stands this week, says extortionists drove ...

Lucknow, April 4 (IANS) Call it the mother of all controversies ahead of the poll. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Maneka Gandhi, whose son Varun ...

Bangkok, March 22 (DPA) Thailand's health ministry has warned people suffering from asthma and allergies to avoid eating fried insects, a popular street-stall snack in Bangkok and other cities, media reports said ...

Lucknow, March 21 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Shekhar Tiwari is in prison on charges of murdering a government engineer in Uttar Pradesh. But police say he still managed to ...

Jammu, Feb 13 (IANS) National Conference president and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah and his party colleague Mohammad Shafi Uri were Friday elected to the Rajya Sabha. Abdullah polled 27 votes ...

Lucknow, Feb 10 (IANS) The budget session of the Uttar Pradesh assembly got off to a raucous start Tuesday with opposition Samajwadi Party legislators throwing paper missiles and hurling mikes while Governor ...

New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) Indians woke up to some pleasant news Thursday with the prices of fuel being cut further as the government allowed its state-run petroleum retail companies to cut ...

Islamabad, Jan 25 (IANS) The Pakistani Army and paramilitary forces have been deployed at some schools in the picturesque but restive Swat Valley in the country's northwest where, bowing to a Taliban ...

Washington, Jan 24 (ANI): Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has slammed rumours suggesting that she and Tom Brady are engaged. "I don''t know how people are so creative," the model, 28, told Brazilian magazine ...

Islamabad, Jan 16 (IANS) Bowing to a Taliban diktat, some 400 private schools in the picturesque but restive Swat Valley in Pakistan's northwest have discontinued girls' classes, depriving more than 40,000 students ...

Lucknow, Jan 14 (IANS) In the year that has just begun, Uttar Pradesh police already claim to have gunned down eight criminals in three shootouts. So are the cops in the state ...

Vienna, Jan 8 (DPA) The price for oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell by 0.52 dollars Wednesday, ending a rally in which the cartel's basket price ...

Vienna, Jan 7 (DPA) The price for oil produced by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) continued to rise Tuesday, climbing to $46.27, the Vienna-based cartel announced Wednesday.One barrel (159 ...

Lucknow, Jan 2 (IANS) Arrested ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Shekhar Tiwari has confessed to having brutally beaten PWD executive engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta on Dec 24, leading to his death, ...

Srinagar/Jammu, Dec 28 (IANS) Counting of the votes polled in Jammu and Kashmir's staggered assembly elections began Sunday, with most analysts predicting another hung 87-member legislature.The counting process started in the state's ...

Ranchi, Dec 26 (IANS) Efforts are going on to get coal blocks in three countries, including the US, said minister of state for coal Santosh Bagrodia here Friday. "We are making efforts ...

Washington, Dec 24 (DPA) US military commanders are planning to arm local militias to combat Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, the New York Times reported Wednesday.The first such "local defence forces" would begin ...

Noida Dec 24 (IANS) Two employees of a private company were shot at and robbed of Rs.300,000 by unidentified assailants here Wednesday, the police said."Rajendra and Mahesh, employees of a private logistics ...

Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Pakistan's interior ministry has alerted the provinces that two militant organisations could attempt attacks at gatherings and processions during the holy month of Moharram."It said this in a ...

New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) In yet another incident of daylight robbery involving motorbike-borne assailants in the capital, a businessman was robbed of Rs.100,000 outside a bank in south Delhi.Vikas Aggarwal, 36, ...

New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in the capital, the police said Wednesday. The girl, a resident of Shakarpur in east Delhi, had ...

New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) A 33-year-old manager of a multinational company was Wednesday found dead in his south Delhi home, the police said, suspecting it a case of suicide.Subhit Chakravarty's body ...