Liberal Muslim leader Kamal Farooqui is dead against legalising gay sex.

The best-selling author has announced that he is writing a sequel to his million-copy bestseller A Suitable Boy, titled A Suitable Girl.

The parents of a 3-year-old American boy, who died after being operated on by Indian-origin doctor Jayant Patel, nicknamed 'Dr Death', have agreed to an out of court settlement for $200,000.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist), a Naxalite outfit, on Thursday slammed the Maoists for destroying the communist movement by indulging in individual annihilation and facilitating the despatch of para-military forces and commandos to Lalgarh.

Notwithstanding the party's gag order, Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said Congress should go it alone in the assembly elections in Maharashtra.

Higher impetus on automation through higher funding of e-governance projects and rationalisation and clarity on levy of taxes would bring relief, says the computer hardware industry.

The recent petrol and diesel price hike by the government did not go down well with the common people who expressed their

With regard to foreign institutional investors, the survey said that there are signs that FIIs who had recorded net outflows in 2008-09 may have returned to the Indian market in the last two months.

India's economic revival also depends on the government's capacity to push through some critical policy reforms in the coming months, says the Economic Survey 2008-09, which was

The onset of monsoons in Jalpaiguri in West Bengal raised hopes for the farmers waiting to sow their crops. The region received almost 300 mm of rainfall in the past two days.

A SIMPLE blood test may in future help women predict their chances of getting pregnant with fertility treatment.

A PREGNANT woman who was wrongly told she had tested negative for cystic fibrosis is claiming £100,000 damages for alleged medical negligence.

MEN with early prostate cancer could soon be treated with soundwave technology instead of surgery.

DOCTORS yesterday refused to back calls to lift the threat of prosecution from those who accompany terminally ill loved ones to overseas clinics to take their own lives.

FATHERS should be given greater rights to spend time at home with their children, a doctor from Scotland said yesterday.

An enthusiastic Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Microsoft Imagine Cup Software team left the island yesterday to compete in the world final in Cairo, Egypt, after grabbing the top titles in three qualification rounds.

Former Scotiabank boss William 'Bill' Clarke was "pushed out" of his post by the bank because it could not ignore allegations and complaints about his professional conduct as head of the financial institution. Attorney-at-law John Vassell, who is representing the

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread" is a saying that Herbert Henry takes very seriously. The cement and gravel-stained bucket in his hand is an obvious sign that he is in the middle of some other

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has declared that his ministry's intensive marketing campaign will be Jamaica's safety net if the British government ignores the protest of Caribbean leaders against the imposition of an air passenger duty (APD) expected to significantly dampen

WHEN ALL the books of Jamaica's history are written, Spanish Town will have a special chapter in it.The town was Jamaica's second capital, but it's nowhere near the splendour of the days the Spanish called it home. Villa de la