A major fire broke out at the Baluja shoe showroom in Connaught Place on Sunday morning.

Four people, including two children, have died and 100 others hospitalized Sunday due to suspected water contamination in a Gujarat village, an official said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would try emerging as a key player in the West Bengal assembly polls next year by cashing-in on the anti-Left feelings of the people and the "atmosphere of anarchy" being created by the Trinamool Congress.

Three men were buried alive under mud while scooping out silt from a pond Sunday near this Uttar Pradesh city, police said.

The Central Government has assured full support to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in normalizing the situation in the valley and steer the state towards peace and economic progress.

The Congress Sunday criticised Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa for giving a clean chit to the Reddy brothers over allegations of illegal mining, terming it "shocking".

Defending champions Army XI not only lost their match but also their cool and assaulted the umpire as they went down 1-4 to ONGC in a pool A match of the 86th All-India MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup hockey
tournament here Sunday.

Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Sunday gave a "101 percent" clean chit to the Reddy brothers, the mining barons and state ministers, on allegations of illegal mining and ruled out dropping them from his ministry.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said that the programme of garib kalyan melas (GKM) to distribute welfare  assistance among the poor under various schemes will continue despite criticism by middlemen and the opposition.

A shutdown called by separatists and restrictions imposed by authorities paralysed life in Srinagar Sunday, a day after normalcy was restored following 12 days of turmoil. Baramulla town was tense after a boy drowned while allegedly being chased by security men.