New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a key partner in the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition, Thursday opposed the government's decision to fix sugarcane price at ...

Chandigarh, Nov 18 (IANS) To protect the national bird and increase its population, the Haryana government has chalked out a plan to set up a sanctuary and breeding centres for peacocks in ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) A day after the national capital witnessed heavy showers, the temperature in Delhi dipped Wednesday. The met department has ruled out any further possibility of rain in ...

Lucknow, Nov 17 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rebel and Bharatiya Janshakti Party founder Uma Bharti Tuesday said she is willing to join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) but not the ...

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) With 39 new dengue cases reported in the national capital Tuesday, the total number of people infected with the vector-borne disease touched 883, health officials said. ...

New Delhi, Nov.17 (ANI): Breast cancer is on the rise in India due to changing lifestyles. Forty-year-old Dayanand Yadav is the only male patient at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences' ...

Chandigarh, Nov 16 (IANS) Alarmed over rising pollution levels, the Haryana government Monday announced that compressed natural gas (CNG) will be made mandatory for public transport in all national capital region (NCR) ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The national capital Monday reported 32 new dengue cases, taking the total number of people affected by the vector-borne disease to 844. "We have recorded 32 new dengue ...

Lucknow, Nov 15 (IANS) A day after being openly snubbed by Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh said he never had any ...

Lucknow, Nov 15 (IANS) A day after being openly snubbed by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh said he had no intention of ...

Lucknow, Nov 15 (ANI): Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on Sunday lashed out at Samajawadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav for cheating him and his son and not keeping ...

Lucknow, Nov 14 (IANS) Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Saturday sought to distance himself from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rebel Kalyan Singh but did not blame him for the reverses ...

New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Delhi Saturday recorded 34 new cases of dengue, taking the total number of cases due to the vector-borne disease to 783, health officials said. "In the past 24 ...

Ranchi, Nov 13 (IANS) A Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator from Jharkhand and his aide who were abducted by Maoists in Latehar district a day ago were released Friday, police said. Ram Chandra ...

Ranchi, Nov 13 (IANS) Suspected Maoist rebels abducted a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator and his six supporters in Latehar district of Jharkhand when he was returning home after attending a party, ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) The drop in temperature in the capital has been the result of a western disturbance and not because of the onset of winter, which is yet to ...

Ranchi, Nov 11 (IANS) Six former Maoist rebels have decided to shun violence and join the political mainstream by contesting the coming Jharkhand assembly elections. Four rebels have been given ticket by ...

Lucknow, Nov 10 (IANS) Congress candidate and film star Raj Babbar Tuesday won the Firozabad Lok Sabha by-election, defeating Dimple Yadav of the Samajwadi Party by over 85,000 votes, officials said.

Lucknow, Nov 10 (IANS) The Congress was Tuesday poised to win the Firozabad parliamentary seat with its candidate film star Raj Babbar ahead by more than 30,000 votes against the Samajwadi Party's ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 10 (IANS) Thousands of people, including the disabled, sick and children, were left stranded on the highways leading to Kathmandu valley as Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas Tuesday enforced ...

Lucknow, Nov.9 (ANI): Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said he was proud of Abu Azmi, the party deputy in Maharashtra Assembly, for taking his oath in national language, ...

Patna, Nov 9 (IANS) A court in Bihar Monday sentenced a man convicted of killing a Muslim teenager during the 1989 communal riots in Bhagalpur to life imprisonment. Bhagalpur Additional District and Sessions ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) With more than 550 cases of dengue reported in the national capital, Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia will meet Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit later Monday to discuss ...

Lucknow, Nov 8 (IANS) A criminal case was registered against 28 people, including 26 women, in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district Sunday for drawing widows' pension on forged documents. The accused involved the village ...

New Delhi, Nov.7 (ANI): By-elections for one Lok Sabha seat and 31 Assembly seats in seven states remained by and large peaceful, as over 60 per cent of voters turned out on ...

Patna, Nov 7 (IANS) A court in Bihar Saturday convicted Kameshwar Yadav, accused of killing a Muslim teenager during the 1989 communal riots in Bhagalpur. Bhagalpur Additional District and Sessions Judge Arvind Madhav ...

Patna, Nov 7 (IANS) Eradicating polio from Bihar continues to be a big challenge with at least 100 new cases of polio recorded in the state this year, despite multi-million rupee campaigns ...

New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) With 29 new dengue cases reported in the capital Saturday, the total number of those affected by the vector-borne disease rose to 527, health officials said. "There were ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) A traffic jam on the busy Ambala-Chandigarh highway Saturday held up a minister of state in Haryana from reaching the Raj Bhawan to take oath of office. Sukhbir Kataria, ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 7 (IANS) Ignoring a rebuff by Nepal's ruling parties, who have asked the UN not to intervene in the republic's internal matters, a top UN official is suggesting ...