A mentally unbalanced man, who had been discharged from the Army in 1998 on health grounds, was lynched by locals at Nungi’s Poreypara in South 24-Parganas on Friday morning. Though Jayanta Sarkar’s brother has lodged an FIR with Maheshtala...

The fasting month of Ramadan looks set to be one of curfews, protests and hardship for Muslims in Indian Kashmir, which is experiencing a wave of popular unrest directed against Indian rule. For two months, violent demonstrations have rocked the...

India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable, ballistic missile Prithvi-II from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, about 15 km from here off the Orissa coast. The missile mounted on a mobile launcher was...

Government today said that Ajmal Amir Kasab, who has been sentenced to death in the Mumbai terror attacks case, may be hanged by the end of this year provided there is no legal bar.

At least 60 people were killed and over two hundred injured when a severe storm with a windspeed of 125 kmph ripped through North Dinajpur district in West Bengal and four neighbouring districts of Bihar. Thirty-one people were killed and one hundred...

They are tribals, and often very poor, so the residents of this village in the northeastern corner of Chhattisgarh can’t figure out what the Naxals have against them. As the body of 45-year-old Louis Kais, killed in the April 6 ambush in Dantewada,...

Senior Samajwadi Party leaders, including leader of opposition in the assembly Shivpal Singh Yadav, were detained when they were on their way to trouble-torn Bareilly town, where curfew has been clamped following clashes between communities.

Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan are ‘2 Idiots’. That’s what the Shiv Sena believes and the party’s Hindi mouthpiece ‘Dopahar Ka Saamna’ said in a statement: “In real life, Aamir and Shahrukh have been proved as ‘2 Idiots’ as...

On a rain-soaked September night in 2008, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi had succeeded in bringing chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee in the same photo-frame. That was for Singur.

Some of the best American universities and educational institutes are “extremely interested” in coming to India and are eagerly waiting for the relevant law to be put in place so that they can move forward, human resource development...