New Delhi: An Algerian terrorist who was a Pakistan-trained member of the Al Qaeda, had been ordered to attack the Indian Embassy in Paris this year, a leading French newspaper has claimed.
The Le Monde, one of France's most popular newspapers, (...)
New Delhi: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton's crack of the whip vis a vis India's oil imports from sanction-hit Iran appears to have worked.
Keen on making up the for the likely drop in the import of Iranian crude, India is now cozying up to (...)
NEW DELHI: In perhaps a first, as many as 25 filmmakers including four from India, have put their heads and directorial skills together and made a film ‘The Owner' which premieres worldwide on May 25.
Even if the film does not find favor with (...)
NEW DELHI: Techies at a development center of United States software giant Microsoft in the Eastern Indian city of Hyderabad have developed spectacles which could possibly help the blind navigate.
The hi-tech glasses, named ‘Kinectacles' is among (...)
NEW DELHI: Italy has recalled its envoy from New Delhi and has expressed “strong displeasure” at the Indian government's inability to hand over two arrested marines, accused of murder, to Italian custody.
Italian deputy foreign minister, Staffan (...)
New Delhi: Taming the mighty Mount Everest by climbing the world's highest mountain peak is no longer a feat. Apparently, hurtling down its icy, steep, rugged peaks is.
A six member team of the rugged Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a (...)
NEW DELHI: Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari personal offerings to the tombs of a dead Indian saint and an exiled Indian emperor have been officially ‘pinched' from public funds from the Pakistan government treasury.
A Pakistan government (...)
NEW DELHI: An Australia cricketer playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been booked for attempting to rape a 27-year-old US citizen of Indian origin at a five star hotel here.
27-year-old Australian player Luke Pomersbach has been (...)
New Delhi: On a day the Indian Parliament discussed ways and means to ‘regulate' internet content, the websites of India's apex court and the ruling Congress party were hacked by ‘hacktivists', protesting attempts to censor the internet.
The (...)
NEW DELHI: In a bizarre incident, a 14-year-old girl, was raped by a class teacher who then ordered the school cook to abort the teenager's 10-week old pregnancy. The girl has been admitted to hospital for severe bleeding and is now in critical (...)
NEW DELHI: Denied permission to celebrate, a drunk Shahrukh Khan got into a messy scrap with a Mumbai stadium's cricket officials, after the former's team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) beat the Mumbai Indians.
Shah Rukh and his entourage which (...)
NEW DELHI: Here's an instance of the social media, getting under your skin. Quite literally splitting it.
Enraged by a photo posted on Facebook by a fallen out friend, a 15-year-old boy stabbed him with a paper cutter in New Delhi.
The victim, (...)
New Delhi: Delhi is the capital of India is old hat.
The brutal gang-rape of a middle aged woman in a hospital toilet, a public garden and her subsequent murder back at the same hospital is only reinforcing the image of Delhi, as the sadist (...)
NEW DELHI: ‘Kali Ma' a beer launched by an American company has begun fizzing even before being sold in India.
The Indian Parliament on Wednesday heard an animated discussion by its parliamentarians who now want the government ask the United (...)
NEW DELHI: At least 35 children have died in a fortnight at a top hospital in Jammu and Kashmir, forcing the provincial government to order an inquiry.
The children died at the GP Pant Hospital reportedly of encephalitis and R S Chib, Kashmir's (...)
New Delhi: In a typical illustration of the long winding patriarchal Indian political discourse, the country's parliamentarians want to stop the “indecent portrayal of women”.
Cut down to basics, Indian MPs now want sexy, pouting women off (...)
Goa (INDIA) A ruling parliamentarian from the Western Indian state of Goa has accused his own party's government in the neighboring state of Maharashtra of allowing iron ore mining to run riot and pollute water-bodies in Goa.
Speaking in the (...)
New Delhi: Stranded in Saudi Arabia for days without required documentation, seven Indian nurses were rescued by the Indian Embassy in the Kingdom, officials said. Efforts are now on at war-footing to repatriate them.
Four of the seven nurses, (...)
New Delhi: A young Australian woman was date-raped by an Indian male, in what is being referred to as a ‘Facebook rape case' in this part of the world.
The Indian police are on the lookout for one Sammy Sidhana, who had established contact with (...)
NEW DELHI: South Indian mega film-star Chiranjeevi, who plunged into active politics with moderate success a few years ago, has run into real-life trouble with the Indian tax authorities conducting a raid at his daughter's Bangalore home and seizing (...)
New Delhi: Two feminine ends of what was once India's most poignant love triangle saga, finally find themselves under one roof; that of the Indian Parliament.
The smoldering-forever Rekha Ganesan and the once-bubbly-now-dogged Jaya Bachchan, both (...)
NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of the East Indian State of West Bengal walked non-stop for 15 kilometers at the head of rally of supporters and party workers to mark one year of the fall of Marxist rule after three-and-half decades of (...)
NEW DELHI: At least four persons, including three were branded as witches or warlocks and then brutally murdered in Jharkhand, an eastern Indian state of Jharkhand which has a significant population of animists.
The practice of witchcraft is (...)
NEW DELHI: Climate change will denude and put under additional stress, the Himalayan forests, the Indian government fears.
A federal government report has said that these Himalayan forests are already reeling under threats like excessive (...)
Goa (INDIA): A solar fly killer, a floating toilet soap, a pressure cooker for an espresso maker, and a motorcycle plow.
Welcome to ‘Jugaad' or the famed rustic Indian art of innovation and ‘making do'.
Rural India, where stable electricity (...)