Centuries old Indian craft of brocade weaving from Varanasi is finding it hard to survive as it is facing the challenge of machine-made Chinese imitations.

Sriperumbudur, a suburb of Chennai, hosted the 13th National Road Racing Championship at the Madras Motor Racing Track (MMRT) on Sunday.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan on the honour killing issue.

Police have recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition belonging to suspected Maoists in Jharkhand's Simdega District.

The first metro rail service on the New Delhi-Gurgaon route started on Monday morning.

The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram will submit its report on Bhopal gas tragedy to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today.

India and Bangladesh will soon set up 'haats' (markets) along their international border in the northeast to boost local business and trade between the two neighbours, officials said here Monday.

At least nine people were injured in separate guerrilla attacks in north Kashmir's Sopore town Monday while security forces surrounded a house where militants were holed up, police said.

The ministerial panel on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy is due to submit its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh later Monday with key recommendations on addressing the wrongs in the 25-year-old disaster that killed thousands.

Despite the heat wave that has sent day temperatures soaring to 40-45 degrees Celsius, there is no marked drop in the tourist inflow into the Taj city.