India

BJP on Sunday announced a gherao of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's office on Monday to protest the increasing instances of crime against women in the state.

The 28-year-old actress, who is married tennis pro Ryan Sweeting, looks cute and edgy in her new hairdo.

The fifth seeds took only an hour and 18 minutes to defeat the Serb-Russian pairing of Jelena Jankovic and Alisa Kleybanova 6-3, 6-3.

An ailing tigress has died of old age in Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal, a forest official said on Sunday. "The big cat, named 'Sita', was 21 years old.

Andy Murray finally got the better of Philipp Kohlschreiber, needing 40 minutes to complete a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 12-10 win and reach the fourth round on Sunday.

Actress Angelina Jolie says her fiancé and actor Brad Pitt's newly-engaged close friend and actor George Clooney will walk down the aisle before them.

India is also creating a new mountain corps and beefing up border defences, although that initiative has stalled

Sonakshi Sinha plays a boxer in the forthcoming actioner 'Holiday: A Soldier is Never Off Duty'.

Peter Sunde had been wanted by Interpol since 2012 after being sentenced in Sweden to prison and fined for breaching copyright laws.

Afghanistan will see a run-off on June 14 between former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani to elect a successor to Karzai in the country's first democratic transfer of power.

Suspended Gujarat cadre IPS officer D G Vanzara, who has been behind bars for the past seven years in connection with fake encounter cases, on Saturday retired after 34 years of service.

Besides SpaceX, Boeing, Sierra Nevada and Blue Origin are developing "space taxis" with the goal of flying astronauts by 2017.

The SOL students union also joined the protest as it is widely known that the three-year undergraduate correspondence honours course would also be changed to four years.

Singapore Airlines will fly the A380 daily from both Mumbai and Delhi. Approval for the aircraft's operations were given in January.

Of all the perfect points Federer has played in his stellar career, the 17-times grand slam champion singled out one from possibly one of his harshest defeats - the 2008 Wimbledon final.

Refuting rumours about being upset by the actor's tall claims, the actress took to Twitter to appreciate his Durex commercial.