Families of Kargil martyrs came from all across India to salute the place where their loved ones have sacrificed their lives.

Ex-CJI J S Verma has disagreed with the apex court's view declining to intervene into the UP cabinet decision on installing statues of Mayawati statues in UP.

Delhi Metro began the trial runs on the Yamuna Bank-Noida corridor with the train running up to New Ashok Nagar station.

PM Manmohan Singh's claim that his government had all the relevant answers to questions raised on the Indo-Pak joint statement has been rubbished by the BJP.

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said India has nothing to do with Balochistan and wondered why it will do anything there when there are enough problems on its border with Pakistan.

A 13-year-old domestic maid was allegedly gang-raped by four persons suspected to be MNS activists in suburban Andheri, police said.

Pramod Muthalik was arrested in Belgaum for allegedly making an inflammatory speech in Mysore last month.

PM Manmohan Singh said that the government has all the 'relevant answers' to the questions raised over the Indo-Pak joint statement.

A FATHER has said he has been given a new lease of life after surgeons pulled his heart out of his body.

THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has dropped its five-year opposition to the principle of assisted suicide after a consultation with its members.

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SAINSBURY'S is to opt out of distributing Tamiflu, because of fears it might encourage people with the virus into its supermarkets.

A YOUNG mother expecting her second child was described as "gravely ill" last night and continues to receive specialist treatment in Sweden for swine flu.

Other than India, China and Mexico, the top 10 recipients of remittances include the Philippines, Poland, Nigeria, Romania, Egypt, Bangladesh and Vietnam. Remittance flow to South and East Asia has continued to post strong growth, largely on the fact that

In a bid to dissuade youths from visiting off shore casinos, Goa government on Friday effected a sharp increase in their entry fees besides substantially raising the license processing fee for serving liquor on the floating gambling houses.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, which recently launched its own search platform on Friday described its competition with Google as 'fun competition'.

The country's growth may moderate to 6.25 per cent -- the lower end of the forecast by the Economic Survey for 2008-09 -- in the current fiscal if the global economic downturn prolongs, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday.

Emerging economies, including India, are set to return to sustained growth trajectory by 2011 on growing domestic demand even as the downturn in the developed economies is likely to continue for the next several years, a report has said.

Some officials, I am told, do not even have an email address and for them, papers placed on a cardboard file and wrapped in the horizontal four-inch flaps and a thread are quite the official thing. An email which demands

Ahead of the first quarterly review of credit policy on Tuesday, RBI Governor D Subbarao on Friday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to review the macro economic situation.