India

Allahabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction for the release of people detained in connection with the VHP yatra and asking to compensate them.

After setting a November 4 deadline initially, the AIBA has revised it to December 4.

Yasin Bhatkal, whose real name is Muhammad Ahmad Zarar Siddibapa, hails from Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka.

India's first dedicated satellite for maritime communications will be launched on Friday from the European space consortium, Arianespace, from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

Amid reports of an impending Western military strike on Syria over the alleged use of chemical weapons, a fake Twitter account of External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid caused a flutter on Wednesday, saying the attack was to begin soon.

BCCI treasurer Ravi Sawant said that N Srinivasan is likely to attend the Working Committee meeting in Kolkata on September 1.

Reports said that neither of the two stars have filed for a divorce nor have moved towards a legal separation.

The Centre on Wednesday asked the Rajasthan government not to give special treatment to self- styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is accused in a sexual assault case.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday US intervention in Syria would be "a disaster for the region", the ISNA state news agency reported, as Western powers made plans to hit Damascus over a chemical weapons attack.

For more than two and half decades, Jha was treated by many doctors but to no avail.

The death toll included seven Shiite family members killed when gunmen raided their home and shot them as they slept

Tourist visa on arrival facility has been extended to four more airports in the country - Thiruvananthapuram, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kochi.

Doctors across hospitals in Kanpur on Wednesday continued their agitation and boycotted work for three hours to protest the arrest of their colleagues on the charges of issuing fake medical certificates on payment.

In a shocking incident, an 11-year-old Dalit child labourer was shot dead allegedly by a customer for refusing to wash plates at a roadside eatery in neighbouring Shamli district, police said on Wednesday.

Kajol is known for her memorable performances in films like 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge', 'Gupt' and 'Dushman'.

Two Nobel laureates - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi - will meet at a human rights forum in the Czech Republic next month, an official said at Dharamsala on Wednesday.