Indian archers faced an early elimination in the individual round of the Archery World Cup Stage III at Ogden in the US.

Poverty, landlessness and unemployment are pushing larger number of Indian and Bangladeshi women to different countries through illegal channels and subjecting them to exploitation and sexual harassment, a new study said here Friday.

The pro-Maoist Peoples' Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) Friday confirmed its participation in the Aug 9 Lalgarh meeting to be addressed by Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee but warned of stiff resistance if attempts were made to arrest its members "without a warrant".

Chhattisgarh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress traded charges Friday over a cartoon appearing in the BJP state unit mouthpiece. The Congress says its party chief Sonia Gandhi has been depicted as a "witch".

Newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay Friday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and presented him a copy of his recently published book "India Battles to Win".

More youths should come forward and cast their votes as "each vote counts", former chief election commissioner (CEC) Navin Chawla said Friday.

The Supreme Court Wednesday held that the Regional Transport Authority could direct stage carriages or buses to go off the road after they have operated for 15 years.

The Supreme Court has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to arrest "forthwith" mafia don-turned-politician Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, who is absconding after his bail was cancelled by the apex court May 3 this year.

At least six people were injured, two of them critically, in a grenade attack Friday in the restive northeastern state of Manipur, officials said.

Forest officials Friday intensified their efforts to trap two leopards after devotees walking on the footpath to the Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh spotted one of them.