A telephone call about a bomb being planted in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) on Thursday created panic with the staff and the students being evacuated from the building but it turned out to be hoax.
Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif on Thursday sought civil nuclear technology to overcome Pakistan's energy crisis during a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
Confusion over the nomenclature of disputed sites in eastern Ladakh may have delayed the resolution of the three-week standoff between India and China in April. Rahul Singh reports.
The university had been deliberating on the issue for a long time and a final decision was taken on Wednesday.
Two persons were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the alleged gang rape a 22-year-old college student on Mandar hill in Banka district of south-eastern Bihar, about 45 kilometres from Bhagalpur, late Tuesday.
Uttar Pradesh lokayukta justice (retd) NK Mehrotra has said that he had not given clean chit to former chief minister Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the Rs. 1,410-crore Dalit memorials scam.
Uttar Pradesh government gave home secretary RN Upadhyay marching orders on Wednesday when he made an insensitive “a-person-born-has-to-die” remark in reply to a media query on Tuesday’s Sonbhadra mass suicide case.
Shashi Kant Sharma will take over as the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) today, succeeding Vinod Rai who demitted office yesterday after an eventful five-and-a-half years during which the audit body was locked in confrontations with the government.
Two men wielding knives butchered and beheaded a man believed to be a British soldier in a busy London street on Wednesday, before delivering an Islamist tirade to passers-by.
A row has erupted over the handcuffing of an Odisha Opposition party leader, accused in a case of financial irregularities.
The Cong sought to project a unified front ahead of the 2014 polls, as party chief Sonia Gandhi and V-P Rahul Gandhi expressed confidence in Manmohan Singh and declared the PM, too, will be part of the party campaign next year.
Aurangzeb Naqshbandi reports.
Economy turning around; GDP to exceed 6%: PM |
UPA's report cardTwo functionaries of UP’s Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), a state police unit that is controversial for its handling of communal riots, on Wednesday assaulted each other while on duty at a function attended by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
All seven members of the family, including three children, of a wholesaler, who also dabbled in property, were found murdered in their home in a busy trading hub of Ghaziabad on Wednesday morning.
Bollywood actor Shyan Munshi and ballistic expert PS Manocha were slapped with perjury charges by the Delhi high court on Wednesday, which ordered their prosecution for going back on their statements in the murder trial of model Jessica Lall.