New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) The Indian Air Force (IAF) will fully back indigenous enterprises to develop critical technologies to not only meet its future needs but also to reduce dependency on ...

London, Sep 24 (ANI): Former Spice Girls member Melanie Brown, known as Scary Spice during the band's heydays, is said to be eager for the girls to reunite for a last ...

London, July 22 (ANI): A new blog, which displays pictures of drunk people that match with yoga positions, has become a huge internet craze. Sprawled across a bench, bending backwards over a ...

By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Panaji, July 9 (IANS) The farmers of Virnoda village in north Goa allege that the sports ministry is bullying them to part with fertile farm land for the construction of ...

Madna (Uttar Pradesh), July 4 (ANI): Delay in Monsoon in Uttar Pradesh, is upsetting villagers and farmers of Madna village, as they are going through a tough time as the fields in ...

London, July 4 (DPA) A woman's body lay for five years in her Edinburgh apartment before it was discovered after neighbours notified authorities about a water leak, media reports said Saturday. Police had ...

Lucknow, June 25 (IANS) Marriages of frogs are being conducted, women folk are harnessing themselves to the yoke to plough the fields, and children are ritualistically rolling on the ground. In the ...

Lucknow, June 25 (IANS) As Uttar Pradesh sweats under the blistering heat and there is no sign of the monsoon, villagers are resorting to invocations, rites and ritual to appease the rain ...

Nairobi/Abuja, May 28 (DPA) A Nigerian fan of Manchester United killed four people and injured ten others when he drove a minibus into a crowd of Barcelona supporters, Nigerian police said ...

London, May 25 (ANI): Oz musician Peter Andre has revealed that he wants a "quickie divorce" from his estranged wife Jordan, despite the latter's constant pleas to reconcile. Though Jordan begged Peter to ...

By Fakir Hassen Bloemfontein, May 16 (IANS) Of the many schools who have benefited from the Indian Premier League II (IPL) being played in South Africa, the Bartimea Combined School here has probably ...

London, May 7 (IANS) British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) News has announced its decision to sack nearly 90 jobs by 2010. The Mirror online reported that the bulk of the cuts are to take ...

London, Apr 11 (ANI): Tibetan farmers discontented with the Chinese rule have refused to sow their fields in a show of passive resistance against Beijing. Chinese officials are so anxious at the latest ...

London, March 9 (ANI): Pharmaceutical experts are selling water from the murky English Channel to Americans as a blocked nose remedy. Drugs company Shering-Plough claims that its Afrin PureSea Hydrating Nasal Rinse ...

Raipur, Feb 21 (IANS) Kawasi Lakhma has been a Chhattisgarh legislator for the past 10 years, but his 90-year-old father remains unaware of his status and hopes that Lakhma would return to ...

New Delhi, Jan 23 (ANI): BrahMos, a 290-km range cruise missile that can touch 2.8 times the speed of sound, will be the main attraction of the army contingent for the ...

London, Jan 8 (ANI): The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 14 runaway stars speeding through dense interstellar gas, creating weird cosmic sculptures known as bow shocks. Astronomers led by Raghvendra Sahai of ...

Srinagar, Dec 31 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir chief minister-designate Omar Abdullah was received warmly by a huge crowd of enthusiastic supporters at the Srinagar airport Wednesday after his arrival from New Delhi.Waving ...

London, August 7 (ANI): A treasure hunter, using a metal detector, has discovered a pure gold cross dating from the 7th century, which is worth at least 25,000 pounds. The anonymous finder ...

By Venkata Vemuri London, Aug 3 (IANS) A delegation of Orissa tribals has come all the way to London to confront the owner of a company planning to mine bauxite from a hill ...

By Suman Negi Dhanbad, June 20 (ANI): While many youngsters find it hard to come out of the web of Naxalism, there are several persons who after having served their terms in ...

Bhubaneswar, June 14 (IANS) Young girls wore new dresses, decorated their foreheads with artistic motifs in sandalwood paste and swung from ropes hung from trees Saturday to mark the beginning of a ...

Coimbatore, June 9 (ANI): This years traditional bullock cart race in Coimbatore attracted hordes of enthusiasts today. The bullock cart race, which is popularly known as 'rekla' race, is organised to ...

Chandigarh, June 6 (IANS) Two agriculture officers of Punjab were Friday suspended by the state agriculture minister because they not only failed to run the plough through the sown paddy area and ...

Chandigarh, June 6 (IANS) The Punjab government Friday allowed farmers to start sowing paddy from June 10 onwards. State Agriculture Minister Sucha Singh Langah said the sowing had been advanced in view ...

Melbourne, May 23 (ANI): Tom Moody, the coach of the Punjab Kings XI, has cautioned Cricket Australia not be in a rush in encouraging private ownership of domestic teams. The former Test ...

Madurai, May 23 (IANS) A leading eye-care network in Tamil Nadu that has won the $1 million Gates Award for global health wants to plough the money back into healthcare for poor ...

By Shyam Pandharipande Pandharkawda (Maharashtra), May 19 (IANS) Incredible as it may sound, Purushottam Karanna Myanewar, a farmer in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district, says he has never taken a loan to till his small ...

By Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) They are no Bill and Melinda Gates, Microsoft's first couple known for their philanthropy; neither are they fresh-faced non-resident Indians just back to their roots, ...

By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai, Feb 20 (IANS) Though Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan has been under fire from Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for building a girls' school in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki ...