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Cop shot dead, another seriously hurt by...

Cop shot dead, another seriously hurt by gunmen in Delhi

In the second such attack in three days, a Delhi Police constable was killed while another was seriously injured when some persons opened fire on the police men who had confronted them on finding their activities suspicious in the early hours in Outer Delhi’s Vijay Vihar. Constable Jagbir... read more »

Day after Hudhud, Andhra and Odisha step...

Day after Hudhud, Andhra and Odisha step up relief work

A day after a very severe cyclonic storm Hudhud battered the Andhra and Odisha coasts with heavy rains leaving six persons dead, the state governments continued restoration and relief works even while watching out for heavy rainfall warning. Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu’s... read more »

Hinduism is ‘global heritage’...

Hinduism is ‘global heritage’, not ancestral property of Indian...

New Delhi: Quite vocal about his views on Hinduism, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh’s chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that for Indians ‘Hinduism’ is not their ancestral property but a heritage that belongs to everyone in the world. Bhagwat, who was present at the launch of the... read more »

Study shows MP, Bengal worst in giving R...

Study shows MP, Bengal worst in giving RTI info

BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal are among the worst states with regard to providing information under the RTI Act, a study by an NGO has found. As per the study, the pendency in Information Commissions (ICs) of the states is such that it could take around 60 years for... read more »

India's GVK gets approval for largest Australian coal mine

Supreme Court quashes all coal block allocations since 1993, terms them illegal

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court on Monday cancelled all coal block allocations since 1993. The court said all coal block allocations were done in an illegal manner and it suffered... read more »

U.S. Writer Held by Al Qaeda Affiliate in Syria Is Freed After Nearly 2 Years

Held for nearly two years in a prison run by an affiliate of Al Qaeda in Syria, an American freelance writer was unexpectedly freed on Sunday, following extensive mediation by Qatar, the... read more »

Congo confirms first Ebola cases

The deadly Ebola virus has emerged in another African country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing two people in a remote region where many others have fallen sick, the Congo... read more »

6.0 quake rattles Bay Area, sending about 170 people to hospitals

e little-known West Napa Fault shook for about 20 seconds early Sunday, enough to leave the San Francisco Bay Area with its biggest earthquake in 25 years — wrecking historic wine country... read more »

Iraqi troops foil jihadists’ attack on country’s bigg...

Iraqi government forces battled Sunni militants for control of the country’s biggest refinery on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki waited for a U.S. response to an appeal for air... read more »