MALE - A special United Nations envoy and a senior Indian diplomat have landed in the Maldives amid political crisis in the archipelago following a dramatic regime change in the Indian Ocean...

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Two minor girls were gang-raped in separate incidents in the capital, police said Friday.

In the first incident, a minor girl was gangraped inside a moving car by two friends of her brother-in-law...

New Zealand-based data management solutions' provider Pingar has tied up with CMC Ltd to manage unstructured data of enterprise clients for improving the quality of business process and content...

One person was killed and another was injured when they leapt off a truck being ferried on a goods train near Pernem railway station in north Goa, 45 km from here.

A Konkan Railway spokesperson...

A day after the Election Commission censured Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid for announcing a sub quota for minorities ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls, the Congress Friday downplayed another...

Ahead of a meeting with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), which has threatened to re-start the Gorkhaland campaign, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said she wants a unified state...

India and the 27-nation European Union (EU) Friday agreed to intensify talks to conclude a broad-based trade and investment accord soon and signed two agreements, including on research and...

The Delhi High Court Friday denied permission to a Class 9 girl to live with her boyfriend, a student of Class 12 of the school she was in, and handed over her custody to her parents.

The girl from...

Indian investments in politically troubled island nation of the Maldives are safe, the country's envoy to India said Friday.

"All investments and people are safe, it is our first priority to make...

In a case of witch hunting, a 45-year-old tribal woman was burnt alive by villagers in upper Assam's Sivsagar district on Friday. At least 24 people have been arrested for the crime, police...

India and the 27-nation European Union Friday signed two key pacts, including a joint declaration on research and innovation, and agreed to step up negotiations for a broad-based trade and investment...

The West Bengal assembly Friday barred press conferences at the media centre in the assembly premises when the house is not in session, drawing protests from the Communist Party of India-Marxist...

A group of Kashmiri students, mostly from the families affected by militant violence, who are on a pan-India 'know the country' tour, Friday met Home Minister P. Chidambaram here to share the...

A Mumbai court Friday extended the police custody of three accused in the July 13 serial blasts case that killed 27 people and injured over 125, a lawyer said.

"The court has extended the remand of...

City-based Numeric Power Systems Ltd will deploy the sale proceeds of the uninterrupted power systems (UPS) business in strengthening its renewable energy (wind and solar) and steel business, said a...

Leading telecom firm Reliance Communications Friday reported an increase in total revenue at Rs.5,052 crore for the quarter ended Dec 31 against Rs.5,040 crore during the previous quarter.

The...

Even as the Congress has accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of inciting communalism in Goa, poll officials here have said that they only stuck to official guidelines when they raided a...

The lone Indian contestant in the World Press Photo Contest has won a honorary prize in the Spot News category in Amsterdam.

Salil Bera, who works for The Week magazine here, was the only Indian...

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Friday said the city government will try to make the capital slum free at the earliest.

"The Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation...

Legendary Indian footballer Baichung Bhutia was among the 10 luminaries from diverse fields honoured with the inaugural Banga-Samman award by the West Bengal government Friday. The award is in...

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Nazvi said Friday.

"Yes, he will participate in the election campaign. The...

Government hospitals in districts and local bodies across Karnataka will provide the Indian system of medicine as an alternative treatment, Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda said Friday.

"Our...

The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday questioned the "silence" of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the row over the age of army chief General V.K....

High Commissioner of the Republic of Maldives to India Abdul Azeez Yoosuf has said that situation in Maldives has not reached the point that there should be any worry about the safety of...

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) managing director Mangu Singh Friday inspected the ongoing tunnel and boring work on a 3-km underground corridor between the Central Secretariat and Mandi House,...

Software giant Microsoft has launched its annual DreamSpark Yatra to to share knowledge and spread awareness about innovations in technology that aims at targeting 60,000 students in 100 cities...

The much-awaited Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) platform may come up before the end of this fiscal. It targets to list 500 SMEs in three years.

"The process is on and...

Sarojini Balanandan, a leader of the CPI-M, Friday broke down after she realized that she had been shunted out of the 84-member Kerala state committee.

The 74-year-old was seen wiping her tears in...

Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh suffered a blow Friday in the Supreme Court, forcing him to withdraw his plea demanding that his birth date be treated as May 10, 1951 and not 1950 as the...

Ahead of the second phase of assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party leader Mohan Singh said Friday the party will get a majority in the 403-member house.

"We will win at least 235 seats,"...

Delhi Police Friday told a court hearing the cash-for-vote case that they are likely to file another charge sheet soon.

"We may file another charge sheet in the case," public prosecutor Rajeev Mohan...

With the crisis in the Maldives deepening as former president Mohamed Nasheed took to streets to protest his ouster, India Friday sent a special envoy to meet key political figures in the archipelago...

Men's top seed Rakesh Myneni and women's fourth seed Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy sailed into the finals of Indian Jute National Grass Court Tennis Championships here Friday.

Myneni of Andra Pradesh...

The government Friday went out of its way to placate Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh, urging him not to quit over his age row.

Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati made the appeal in the Supreme...

India has denied that former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed had sought New Delhi's intervention to prevent his ouster and underlined that it has urged the new Maldivian dispensation to ensure his...

The central government's proposed peace process with the anti-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) appears to be headed in the right direction.

This became evident Friday...

Cloud computing start-up nivio has secured $21 million funding from the Videocon Group and AEC Partners, a US-based private equity firm with specialised holdings in telecommunications and...

More than 100 people blocked streets and raised slogans Friday after a 25-year-old woman was kidnapped from a crowded area here, witnesses said.

Kiran Negi was seized by the abductors and dragged...

Godrej Properties Ltd, the real estate arm of the Godrej Group, plans to raise Rs.500-600 crore through the institutional placement programme (IPP) soon to reduce its debt burden and is also looking...

Indian Army chief General Vijay Kumar Singh, who withdrew his petition against a government order recording his birth date as May 10, 1950 after the Supreme Court asked him to do so, is a highly...

Four Border Security Force (BSF) officers were killed and two others critically injured when Maoists blew up their vehicle in Odisha's Malkangiri district, police said.

The rebels triggered the...

A woman teacher who was stabbed to death by a student was consigned to flames here Friday, with hundreds of teary-eyed relatives, friends, colleagues and students packing the funeral.

Uma Maheswari...

A district court here has summoned Haryana's Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs Subhash Kataria and some of his relatives on charges of playing fraud in the 2009 assembly elections, a...

India and Pakistan must axe non-tariff barriers to boost bilateral trade to $10 billion in the next three years, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry said Friday.

Ahead of a...

The European Union, which has imposed fresh sanctions against Iran, Friday asked India to use its leverage to broker talks with Tehran over its suspect nuclear programme even as Prime Minister...

Ignace Tirkey was there in Santiago when eight times Olympic hockey champions missed qualifying for the Games in Beijing for the first time in 80 years. The linkman doesn't want another heartbreak...

With the crisis in Maldives deepening after the resignation of Mohamed Nasheed as president, India is mobilising international support and has reached out to the five permanent members of the UN...

More than 70,000 people offered congregational prayers at the Hazratbal Shrine here on the last Friday of the 10-day long Milad-e-Nabi festivities.

Files of devotees who gathered for the Friday...

Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed Friday quit after police indicted him for the use of unfair means by his son in the Class 10 Board examination in 2009.

Peerzada Sayed,...