Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday met President Pratibha Patil as he began his New Delhi visit eyeing upon boosting strategic and defence ties with India.
Trashing Pakistan’s assertion that state actors were not involved in terror acts against India, Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and every other militant outfit of that country is supported by Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and they have set up modules and sleeper cells in this country.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has asked Indian Revenue Service officials to consider tax payers as important stakeholders in nation building and to administer taxes with a humane approach.
A British Airways employee, who was allegedly planning to carry out a
suicide attack after being placed in airline's strike-busting cabin
crew, had offered his Al Qaeda chiefs to travel to Yemen and Pakistan
to be trained, a British court was told.
Young golfer Rory McIlroy, who features alongside Tiger Woods on the cover of his latest video game, has broken ranks with many players by saying that he would have no qualms about being pictured with the World No.1.
The much-anticipated Spider-Man musical has suffered a series of problems and delays in the past six months - and now it has been hit with another major blow. The project's star, Evan Rachel Wood, has quit.
A new NASA-funded study has concluded that the Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Jammu and Kashmir should be compensated for the losses it has suffered
due to the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, a parliamentarian from
the state demanded Friday.
A new research has suggested that more high risk cases of human papilloma virus (HPV) could be detected by offering home testing kits to women who do not come forward for cervical screening.
The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) Friday completed its final placements with a total of 370 job offers for 315 students, the largest ever graduating batch to be placed across all IIMs.
Two giants of the game, one still active and the other retired, are set to take centre stage at the Brabourne Stadium when the Sachin Tendulkar-led Mumbai Indians start their Indian Premier League campaign against Shane Warne’s Rajasthan Royals here on Saturday.
JEDDAH – The Mayor’s Office has closed down 29 bottled water factories in Jeddah for producing water unfit for human consumption. The companies also face fines of up to SR5,000.
