India

Unidentified persons broke into a steel trader's office in Ghaziabad and robbed Rs 17 lakh, police said on Saturday.

The target of the attack remained unclear but witnesses said several members of Afghan security forces were injured.

Back channel talks between the ruling PML-N and the Taliban are under way to work out a peace formula to end the cycle of violence in Pakistan, a media report on Friday said.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza also bowed out losing in the first-round of their respective mixed doubles matches.

Williams beat the 78th-ranked Yaroslava Shvedova 6-3, 6-1 in a match that wrapped up past 1 a.m. local time.

India are only virtually through to the WC, which will be confirmed after the results of the Asia Cup final and/or the Oceania c'ship.

The accused, who allegedly killed the cat on August 11, was released on bail after he was produced before a court.

Haryana's Director General, Transport, said that the bus stand would be constructed over an area of three acres in Sector 29.

A team of UN experts finished gathering evidence of a suspected chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in suburbs near Damascus last week, the United Nations announced on Friday, though envoys said analyzing the samples may take weeks.

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday that NATO would not take part in a possible attack on Syria amid allegations of chemical weapons' usage on civilians, Xinhua reported.

Pakistan failed to qualify for the mega-event to be held at The Hague, Netherlands for the first time since the tournament's introduction in 1971.

Arrested Indian Mujahideen operative Yasin Bhatkal and his associate have "without any remorse" acknowledged that they carried out many bomb blasts so as to "send a message", a top district police official who interrogated the terror mastermind, on Friday...

After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's aggressive stance in Rajya Sabha, BJP on Friday said he looked for "alibis' in his speech on the state of the economy and his words reflected "pessimism and negativism".

About 5000 employees of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, which manages the hill temple of Lord Venkateswara, on Friday, went on mass leave and took out a rally demanding reversal of Centre s decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.

With Goophone as the brand name, it is unlikely that the company would find acceptance in the Indian market.

JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav on Friday wondered in Lok Sabha as to why Asaram Bapu was still roaming free and has not been arrested despite rape charges slapped against him.