India

Rajasthan BJP has appointed state office bearers and 39 district presidents. The appointments were made by BJP state president Ashok Parnami, according to a party release.

The Director General(DG) of Pakistan Rangers on Thursday said that they will soon return the BSF soldier who was captured by them.

After a month of bitter fighting, the two sides are not meeting face to face.

A fire broke out in the administrative complex of an ISKCON temple in Mathura on Wednesday night, destroying many important documents and items.

Indirect talks between Palestinian factions and Israel have been taking place, mediated by Egypt, to broker a long-term ceasefire.

Eight persons, including two engineers, sustained burn injuries in a blast this evening in a pipeline at one of the units of an NTPC plant in Korba district of Chhattisgarh, police said.

As many as 28 of the 38 districts in Bihar are facing a drought-like situation because of a 28 percent rainfall deficit, officials said Wednesday.

The HSBC composite index for India stood at 53.0, whereas for China it was 51.6, Brazil (49.3) and Russia (51.3).

A police officer has been arrested on charges of molesting a 13-year-old girl in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.

In price sensitive India, local mobile phone makers like Micromax are successfully gaining market share with low cost phones.

Venus Williams rebounded from a shaky second set to defeat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the first round of the Rogers Cup.

The Bihar government on Tuesday enhanced the travel facility for legislators as part of which now they could travel in trains or by air with four aides in place of three earlier.

The incident took place on Friday when Swapnali Lad, a TCS employee, was on her way back to her home.

The UPSC aspirants have been for the past 26 days demanding scrapping of the CSAT format from the examination.

Madhur Bhandarkar has been chosen to receive the Raj Kapoor Smriti Award from the Maharashtra government for his contribution to Indian cinema.

The severity of the current outbreak in Africa, in which nearly 900 people have died, has raised investor expectations that Tekmira's treatment might move more quickly toward regulatory approval.