India

An Afghan national has been arrested by customs officials for allegedly smuggling into the country gold valued at about Rs. 40 lakh at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in Delhi.

In a bid to counter president N Srinivasan's rivals in the BCCI, Tamil Nadu Cricket Association has already started calling up office-bearers of other state units urging them to show solidarity in his hour of crisis.

The passing away of veteran Tamil singer TM Soundararajan not only brought down the curtains on a glorious career spanning nearly six decades but also signalled the end of an era.

BJP legislators in Assam will not vote on May 30 for the two Rajya Sabha seats, from the state, party state president Sabananda Sonowal said on Friday.

A 12-year-old girl found burnt at an under-construction building in Gondwana Nagar in Nagpur, succumbed to her injuries on Saturday, police said.

Ahmedabad police today arrested an alleged bookie, involved in T20 betting that is deeply entrenched in Gujarat. The police recovered Rs. 1.28 crore cash and one kg gold from Vinod Mulchandani, who has been arrested by Ahmedabad crime branch.

Gurunath Meiyappan won bets in most matches that Chennai Super Kings played, the Mumbai Police informed. Mohamed Thaver reports.

Today evening’s deadly attack on the Chhattisgarh Congress leadership serves as a wake up call for the security establishment in Delhi that had started patting its back for a decline in Maoist violence.

After a major Naxal attack on a Congress rally in Chhattisgarh, the Union Home Ministry today said it is rushing additional paramilitary forces to help launch a combing operation for release of abducted leaders.

Internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik on Saturday said he has returned a piece of land the Odisha government had allotted to him as he was not allowed to construct on it.