Senior Congress leader and Union minister M. Veerappa Moily on Monday termed the Hisar Lok Sabha bypoll result as a "defeat" for Anna Hazare, saying if corruption had been the issue the result would have been different.

The UN Security Council on Friday agreed to withdraw nearly 3,000 blue-helmeted troops and police, bringing the unpopular force's size close to where it was before a devastating earthquake in January 2010.

Suspected US air strikes took out a raft of top Al Qaeda leaders in Yemen barely two weeks after a drone killed US-born jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi, provincial and tribal sources said on Saturday.

Observing that the RTI Act is an effective device for making government transparent, BJP leader L.K. Advani on Saturday criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement favouring a "critical look" at the law and said his party was opposed to any such move.

Jack Warner has described as a “conspiracy” against the Caribbean the leak of a video appearing to show him urging officials to accept cash gifts from former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam.

In another gesture of support to Team Anna, RSS on Friday said it will stand behind any individual or organisation taking up the fight against corruption.

Anna Hazare on Friday distanced himself from Prashant Bhushan on the issue of plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir, saying it was not the team’s stand and the lawyer-activist was airing his personal views.

Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian has bought a snake as her new pet. The 32-year-old went to a pet store Fauna in New York to purchase the reptile, reported Us magazine.

Distancing himself from Prashant Bhushan’s views on Jammu and Kashmir, Anna Hazare on Friday said they will decide whether he should continue in the team.

US authorities charged two Iranians in a 'plot directed by elements of the Iranian Government' to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States as part of a major terror attack.