The government departed from set practice on Monday by making public the religions of those killed in communal clashes across the country.

Dozens of persons were injured when the police resorted to lathicharge to disperse members of the Peace Party who were holding a demonstration in front of the UP assembly on Monday to protest against the violence in Muzaffarnagar.

India rode on Ramandeep Singh’s brace to eke out a come-from-behind 3-2 triumph over Argentina and register their second consecutive win in the Sultan of Johor Cup Under-21 hockey tournament, on Monday.

Perhaps for the first time, the Home Ministry has identified the religion of victims of communal violence, saying 107 people lost their lives in riots this year, of whom 66 were Muslims and 41 were Hindus.

In a setback to the Centre, the Supreme Court on Monday said that Aadhaar cards, being issued under a key scheme of the UPA-2, are purely voluntary and that Centre and state government departments cannot demand the card as the sole proof of identity in order to provide a service.

The Samajwadi Party said on Monday that there was no basis of any case or FIR against senior Samajwadi minister Mohd Azam Khan in connection with the Muzaffarnagar riots.

A year has passed since Mumbai Indians’ forgettable Champions League campaign in South Africa but the script continues to have an eerie resemblance. The 2011 winners bowed out in the group stages after suffering a defeat in the first game and a wash-out in the next and their ongoing journey seems to be running on the same path.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of southern Pakistan on Tuesday though there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property.

Part of the rooftop parking in Nairobi’s Westgate mall collapsed on Tuesday, a fireman and security sources said, a day after a fierce fire during the ongoing siege by Al-Qaeda linked fighters.

A Sikh professor at Columbia University has been attacked and injured by a mob of up to 30 people who called him “Osama” and “terrorist” during a brutal assault which the police is investigating as a hate crime.