MUMBAI, March 29 (Agencies): In a western Mumbai suburb stands a six-storey building housing 100 girls, mostly minors, who are being educated, given vocational training and psychological counselling. One thing
Mumbai, March 30 (PTI): Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja was on Wednesday sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment by a fast track sessions court here for raping his maid despite the victim turning hos
New Delhi, March 29 (Agencies): The CBI today informed the Supreme Court that telecom companies Swan Telecom and Loop Telecom were used as front companies by established telecom players to get 2G spectrum illeg
Mumbai, March 29 (Agencies): Senior BJP leader L K Advani has ruled out an apology over the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat. “You are talking of regret and apologies. I understand there have been many r
Pakistani Interior Secretary Qamar Zaman (right) with Home Secretary G.K. Pillai in New Delhi. During their meeting which ended today, Pakistan has agreed to allow Indian team to visit Islamabad to probe Mumbai
Lovers? Gandhi and Kallenbach sit alongside a female companion. A new book has controversially said that the pair had a two-year relationship between 1908 and 1910. NEW Delhi, march 29 (Agencies): Thousand
SINGAPORE, March 29 (PTI): India finds itself bracketed with countries like Philippines and Cambodia, rated as the fourth most corrupt nation among 16 countries of the Asia Pacific region surveyed by leading Ho
The DC Maong Aier and the operations head of Aircel (NE) Kathirvellu makes the first video call through Aircel’s 3G service during the launch in Dimapur, Tuesday, March 29. DIMAPUR, MARCH 29 (MExN):
HONG KONG, March 29 (AFP): The world’s highest hotel opened its doors in Hong Kong on Tuesday, housed in the city’s tallest skyscraper and offering unrivalled panoramic views of the world famous Vic
Kohima, March 28 (DIPR): With an aim to equipped the staff of All India Radio, AIR and Doordarshan with the latest and state of the art broadcasting technology, a Workshop on Hard Disc Band Recording, HDBR syst
Dimapur, March 28 (MExN): The ACCC of Pfutsero assembly constituency is raising serious questions over reasons rations cards not being reviewed and over food grain supply going to unknown interests. The A
New Delhi, March 28 (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday flayed the government for not probing into specific sources of black money stashed in banks abroad and asked the Centre to apprise it of its investigation
Officials of Pakistan, left, and India, right, sit on either side of a table during India-Pakistan Home/Interior secretary level talks in New Delhi, March 28. India and Pakistan have begun two days of diplomati
New Delhi, March 28 (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre on why there should not be a complete ban on the use of plastics in the country which at present is limited to tobacco prod
New Delhi, March 28 (PTI): The tiger population in the country has risen to 1706 compared to 1411 in 2006 — a 12 per cent increase that excludes the big cats of Sundarbans, the latest Tiger Census said to
LUCKNOW, march 28 (PTI): Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar today rubbished Wikileaks expose that he was replaced by Murli Deora as Petroleum Minister in 2006 under US pressure. He, however noted that the
New Delhi, March 27 (PTI): After Nokia, Samsung, LG and other global brands, BlackBerry smartphones-maker Research in Motion is likely to set up an Indian manufacturing facility in view of the potential within
SYDNEY, March 25 (Reuters): Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Labor party looks set to suffer a big defeat on Saturday in elections in the nation's most populous state, leaving three out of six states u
New Delhi, March 25 (PTI): Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday came under attack in Parliament for reportedly saying that India would have made more progress if it had only Southern and Western parts, with so
Lahore, March 25 (Agencies): Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has alleged that India has been aiding terrorist activities in Pakistan and that Pakistanis have “every right to use the Kashmi