Chinese share prices went up marginally Friday with heavyweights leading the way. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index finished up 31.92 points, or 0.94 percent, to 3,433.35. The Shenzhen Component Index closed at 12,048.2 ...

Yang Bozun, a blind Paralympic swimmer from east China's Tianjin, sold out his record-breaking gold medal and donated a total of 30,000 yuan (4,318 U.S. dollars) to the earthquake-hit areas of China's Sichuan province. "I have been ...

People across the country and all over the world have offered help after the recent earthquake disaster. At the same time, a nationwide conservation activity also began in China. Central government organs began to reduce public spending in ...

The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) sent a letter on May 29 to the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and invited chairman Chiang Pin-kun and Vice Chairman and Secretary-General Kao Koong-lian to lead a SEF delega ...

A conference with earthquake relief troops in Chengdu was organized by the Political Department of the Chengdu Military Region Earthquake Relief Headquarters on May 29. At the conference, Lieutenant General Lu Dengming, deputy chief command ...

Beijing's consumer price index rose 6.5% in April, according to the latest statistics from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics and the National Bureau of Statistics Beijing Survey Organization. Food prices rose 21.6%; while non-food ...

Two other guards were wounded when the roadside bomb blew up their truck at Qarghayi, about 100 kilometres east of Kabul, Laghman province police chief Abdul Karim Omaryar told. It was not clear if the bomb was newly planted by

Under the exercise, Ariyalur, Villupuram, Namakkal, Krishnagiri, Thanjvaur, Thiruvarur, Ramanathapuram and Nilgiris districts would have new police chiefs. Deputy Commissioner of Police, headquarters, Coimbatore City, has been transferred and posted as SP of Ariyalur District in place of M S

The raids which began simultaneously at over four dozen places continued, a senior IT official said. Besides Jabalpur, the raids were going on at Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Neemuch and several other places with over 40 teams of police with Income

The government today took a decision in this regard. These IITs are in addition to three new such institutions in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar which have been given the go ahead for starting courses. "The results of JEE is

The court it will announce a new date for verdict on June 16. Bijal Joshi, a resident of Usmanpura area of the city was allegedly gangraped by four people at a hotel on the night of December 31, 2003. She

Official sources said the SCW, which took up the matter on its own, initiated its probe into the complaint lodged against the Bijepur MLA by a 35-year-old woman of Barapali in Bargarh district and recorded her statement during the day.

Verma, a Delhi-based businessman and the son of former MP Veena Verma and poet Srikant Verma, was in jail since July 2006 for his alleged involvement in leaking of the classified documents from the Directorate of Naval Operation here. "On

The trouble started after about 1,000 to 1,500 Gujjar protestors squatted on the railway track, parking a tractor on it in Asafabad area of Firozabad, Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Brij Lal told reporters here. The Gujjar

Sixty-six-year-old Yeddyurappa, who successfully led the party to victory, took oath along with 29 ministers who included five of the six independents whose support helped BJP reach the majority mark in the 224-member state assembly. Governor Rameshwar Thakur administered the

Dismissing a batch of petitions filed by Arvind Vijay Mohan, Bhupinder Singh Patel, Rajat Prasad besides Jogi, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said "They are neither police officers nor were authorised by any one to carry out any investigation. Therefore, it

The man died after the blast blew away the roof of a room of the house of Jagdish Sonekar, MLA from Shahganj. Superintendent of Police Chandra Prakash said investigations were on to ascertain the nature of the blast. Additional Director

The lack of school buildings and related facilities in the villages of NE states have proved to be an impediment in the education of children in spite of the implementation of the SSA, Mizoram Education Minister R Lalthangliana, who presided

Despite setting up designated special courts in all states and exclusive special courts in several others, statistics indicate that around 80 per cent of cases keep pending at the end of the year, she told reporters here. "I feel that

Two days after the newly-elected Constituent Assembly abolished the 240-year-old monarchy and declared the Himalayan nation a republic, the interim government dispatched a formal letter to Gyanendra directing him to vacate the palace within 15 days. Along with the letter,