India

All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) on Saturday appealed to the Jharkhand government to exempt Bollywood movie "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag" based on flying sikh Milkha Singh, from entertainment tax in the state.

A man accused of throwing acid on a woman committed suicide in police custody here Saturday.

The Madhya Pradesh government on Saturday launched the "Samvridhhi" scheme for sustainable access to development in a bid to ensure financial inclusion of marginalised people of society and provide them with the facilities of direct benefits transfer.

The Muslim Brotherhood said at least 31 people were killed on Saturday when security forces opened fire on a protest by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo.

Four liquor smugglers were arrested from two different police station areas and 230 quarter bottles of smuggled liquor seized, police said .

A teacher was on Friday arrested for carrying a bottle of pesticide in a school at Sasaram in Bihar's Rohtas district, close on the heels of death of 23 school students who took poisoned midday meal in the state's Chhapra area.

The woman claimed that the doctor had been exploiting her sexually for the last 13 years by injecting her sedatives, the police official said.

This was Bolt's fastest of a somewhat ragged season, as he edges towards top form ahead of next month's world championships in Moscow.

The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission is understood to have scrapped its controversial reservation policy whereby caste-based quotas were introduced in competitive examinations at the preliminary stage itself, informed sources said Friday night.

The second-seeded Seppi advanced after Horacio Zeballos retired while trailing 6-5 in the first set, Fognini defeated Martin Klizan of Slovakia 6-4, 6-2.

Attorney General Eric Holder has told the Russian government that the U.S. will not seek the death penalty for former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden.

Rains lashed some parts of Uttarakhand on Friday, triggering landslides and causing road blockades, but relief operations by air and land were on in the flood-hit state as the weather remained largely clear.

Several members cutting across the party lines in Jharkhand Assembly on Friday demanded action against the management of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) following Tuesday's police firing in Hazaribagh district that claimed a life.

The three-time defending F1 champion finished comfortably ahead of team-mate Mark Webber both times as Red Bull recorded an impressive 1-2.

District courts in New Delhi have been asked to consider the request of Uttarakhand police to adjourn matters where undertrials are to be brought from jails there as the state police is engaged in relief operations.

A six-year-old girl, who had recently joined a government primary school, was allegedly raped by a 15-year-old boy in the school campus at Jwab village in the district, police said on Friday.