India

Nehwal dropped a place to No.4 in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released on Thursday.

Welcoming Defence Minister A K Antony's statement on involvement of Pakistani troops in the LoC attack, BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday said the matter should now be put to rest. She said the Minister should not be "faulted" for the contradictory statement...

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of death sentence awarded to Maganlal Barela, who was scheduled to be hanged in the morning for beheading his five daughters in Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh, till further orders.

Saina won 18-21, 21-16, 21-14 in 52 minutes against Thai 15th seed Porntip Buranaprasertsuk in a third round match.

In a suspected case of honour killing, an 18-year-old girl was hacked to death allegedly by her brother over her relationship with a youth in their locality, police said on Thursday. Wasim (26) was arrested on Tuesday for killing his sister Arzu Perveen o...

Avaaz says that media in West Bengal is not running ads critical of government inaction against gender crimes.

Bodies of four jawans from Bihar who were killed in an ambush by Pakistani soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir reached Patna on Wednesday. Bodies of Vijay Rai of Bihta in rural Patna, Shambhu Saran Singh (Bhojpur), Premnath Singh (Chhapra) and Raghunandan (Chha...

A local court on Wednesday freed noted music director Shrawan on bail in a five-year old cheque bouncing case. The music director's advocate Anshuman Shrivastava told reporters that judicial magistrate Ajay Pendam had released his client on a bail of Rs 2...

Geetanjali's family members had raised doubts over fair investigation into the matter and demanded a CBI inquiry.

Amid anti-Pakistan slogans, Protests broke out across Bihar on Wednesday against the killing of five jawans in Poonch four of whom hailed from the state even as the wife of a slain soldier rejected the compensation offered by the state government.

Police said they have recovered the booty from the accused, who has been booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code.

Seeking to downplay the LIU report that suspended IAS officer Durga Sakthi Nagpal was not present during demolition of a wall of a mosque in Gautam Budh Nagar, a UP minister on Wednesday said inquiry was going on and the truth would come out soon. "An inq...

Uttarakhand government has given an interest waiver on loans to farmers for one year in disaster-hit areas of the state. Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna announced this while meeting a delegation of farmers from Luxor and Mangalore in Haridwar district at hi...

Slamming Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for stating that poverty was just a "state of mind," Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday said the Congress leadership and Planning Commission should immediately stop making fun of...

The accused officer was caught accepting the bribe for regularisation of a banquet hall in the capital.

The LG G2 is expected to come powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor. It is likely to have a 5.2-inch display, 13 megapixel camera and 2GB of RAM.