Chandigarh, Nov 20 (IANS) City police Friday said they had solved a spate of snatchings and robberies, in which elderly women out on morning walk were attacked, with the arrest of a ...

Panaji, Nov 20 (IANS) The Congress Friday criticised the Indian Navy for its delay in parting with 2.5 acres of land sought by government agencies for the expansion of Goa's only ...

London, Nov 20 (ANI): One in 10 British teenagers is unemployed and not in education, according to latest official figures. The Government has a target to reduce the proportion of young people ...

London, Nov.20 (ANI): England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff wants to play in tWO more World Cups after coming through a career-saving knee operation. Freddie has been told his recovery is going so well he ...

Islamabad, Nov 20 (DPA) A roadside bomb killed three police officers and wounded six early Friday in Pakistan's troubled north-western city of Peshawar, police said. The casualties occurred when a police vehicle ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Noting that a "cross border fertilisation of terrorism" is preventing both Pakistan and Afghanistan to defeat the forces threatening them, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...

Kabul, Nov. 20 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has set a five-year time frame for Afghan forces to take over from international troops. "We are determined that by the next five years, ...

New York, Nov 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Black Friday 2009 falls on 27th November and the various deals offered by the retailers like Wal-mart and Target are the talk of the town. Mostly ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Gujarat skipper and wicketkeeeper Parthiv Patel slammed a century against Hyderabad to give his team the first innings lead on the third day of the Ranji Trophy ...

Panaji, Nov 19 (IANS) Goa Police Thursday dismissed media reports about a possible terror threat to the forthcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which gets underway here Nov 23. ...

New Delhi, Nov (ANI): The Union Agriculture Ministry said here on Thursday that Rs. 1.38 lakh crore have been disbursed among farmers across the country as agriculture credit up to September. This is ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's constituency in Jammu will reach 100 percent sanitation and toilet coverage by the year 2266 - taking the longest time ...

Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): Scientists say they are investigating how some viruses, known for attacking humans and animals, instead attack bacteria. Texas A&M University researchers say information about such viral attackers, called phages ...

Washington, Nov 19 (IANS) Viruses invade both humans and animals, but some of them target bacteria instead. Potentially, that opens up new ways to treat bacterial infections, says a new study. Texas A&M ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Do not expect anything much from next month's climate summit in Copenhagen, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday, reiterating that India is not going to accept any ...

Sao Paulo, Nov 18 (EFE) State-controlled oil company Petrobras has announced the discovery of an estimated 25 million barrels of oil in Brazil's Atlantic waters. The deposit is located in the Campos basin, ...

Bhopal, Nov 17 (IANS) Union Heavy Industries Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh Tuesday dedicated to the nation a state-of-the-art transformer manufacturing facility here. The facility, set up by Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), is part ...

New Delhi/Mumbai, Nov 17 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is expected to question the lone surviving 26/11 attacker, Ajmal Amir Kasab, as it probes the Indian network of terror suspects David ...

Washington, Nov 17 (ANI): Bad news for people who miss out on their sleep because of odd working hours- sleep deprivation adversely affects automatic, accurate responses and can lead to potentially devastating ...

Manila, Nov 17 (DPA) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Tuesday it would loan $700 million to India for infrastructure projects to be developed by public-private partnerships. The loan would be released in ...

London, Nov.17 (ANI): England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff says he is recovering well from his knee surgery, and concedes he is likely to miss England's tour to Bangladesh early next year. Flintoff, 31, said: ...

Mumbai, Nov 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) It was a huge day in the Bigg Boss household. Firstly because it was the nomination day and a record 6 people were nominated this time ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Monday announced the formation of an 11-member committee for timely implementation of the Delhi Master Plan 2021, which includes wide-scale redevelopment ...

Mumbai, Nov 16 (IANS) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Monday visited the Chabad House, a Jewish community centre at Colaba that was one of the targets of the 26/11 terror attacks here ...

Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): By observing changes in the chemical structure of a protein, researchers have established a link between Alzheimer's disease and chronic heart failure. The international team of biochemists and cardiologists, ...

Washington, Nov 16 (IANS) Scientists have figured out the link between Alzhemier's disease and chronic heart failure, two leading causes of death. A team of US, Canadian and Italian bio-chemists and cardiologists, led ...

India and ASEAN bloc have set August 2010 for inking an agreement for opening the services trade as has been done for goods. "Already two rounds of talks have been completed, next ...

London, Nov. 15 (ANI): British troops in Afghanistan will soon be equipped with 1,300 bunker-busting missiles worth 100 million pounds.The Eraser, a shoulder-launched Javelin, is believed to be ideal to use ...

London, Nov 15 (ANI): Twilight star Robert Pattinson worries he'll be killed by his fans. The British actor says he worries about being infected with HIV when obsessed followers approach him with open ...

Singapore, Nov 15 (IANS) Leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit here have scrapped a provision in their draft declaration pledging to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, an official ...