A 45-year-old mentally challenged woman had been staying in her south Delhi house with the body of her octogenarian mother for a few months, not realizing that she was dead. The decomposed body of Vinodini Gupta (80) was discovered from her ground-floor...

Insurance companies are scrapping cash-less hospitalisation across the country which is going to affect those in need of medical treatment. Five days ago 34-year-old Nandita was admitted to a hospital with severe anemia. Three days later she has...

Eight more bodies were recovered from the 150-year-old heritage building in upscale Park Street, raising the toll in the devastating fire that swept the building on Tuesday to 24, fire brigade sources said on Wednesday. Firefighters who began search...

A Christmas party in Goa for two Russian women turned out to be a horrifying ordeal when a taxi driver they had engaged tried to rape them at Anjuna.

The two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, handed over to India by Bangladesh, have confessed to their involvement in the serial blasts that rocked Bangalore last year, a top police official said on Thursday.

Bollywood actress Kajol has been appointed goodwill ambassador of the Britain-based Loomba Trust that works for the welfare and education of children of poor widows in India.”I am honoured and I hope I would be worthy of this appointment,” said...

Nearly a year of attacks on Christians have put India’s leaders on edge, and the latest flare-up in violence drew an angry denunciation from the country’s Sikh prime minister as

Echoing Indian concerns that conversion of food grains into bio-fuels is worsening the food price situation, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Tuesday asked “some developed countries” to rethink their policies. “Some developed...

The Delhi Metro Monday complied with a long standing demand of female commuters and announced that all its trains would have seats reserved for women. “Some women are facing problem in the Metro and they have complained to (Delhi chief minister)...

Political crises can also inspire poetry. Ask Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, who used the words of an old Hindi film song to describe his meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi.