US President Barack Obama has promised to take up with Nawaz Sharif in a “frank” manner the issue of continued Pakistan-based terror directed against India as prime minister Manmohan Singh told him that progress in dialogue will depend on action on this front.

The Punjab and Haryana high court has come to the rescue of elderly parents being tortured by their own progeny in their own homes.

The death toll in the Mazgaon building collapse on Saturday rose to 43 even as rescuers scoured the massive rubble looking for survivors and bodies.

In a rarest of the rare gesture, US President Barack Obama personally walked down to the White House portico to see off prime minister Manmohan Singh after a meeting with him at the Oval Office.

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed N. Srinivasan to attend the BCCI annual general meeting in Chennai on Sunday and even contest the election for the president’s post.

A top member of prime minister David Cameron’s Conservative party has been arrested on suspicion of raping a teenage girl, British police said on Saturday.

With the Opposition parties rubbishing AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s outburst against the ordinance to protect legislators, the BJP on Thursday advised Dr Singh to quit if he had any self-respect

Braving scathing criticism he has encountered on issues of propriety, a defiant N Srinivasan is certain to be elected unopposed as the president of the BCCI during its AGM here on Sunday, although he won’t be able to discharge his functions due to a Supreme Court directive.

Although the Congress asked why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should resign after party vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s strong comment on the controversial ordinance shielding convicted legislators, thi

A deadly 3-week standoff between government troops and Muslim rebels who held nearly 200 people hostage in the southern Philippines has ended with all of the captives safe, officials said on Saturday.