ONGC's pilot underground coal gasification (UCG) project in Gujarat, which was initiated in 2005, is yet to get approval from the Union Coal Ministry, a top company official said here.

Equipped with guided-missile cruiser, destroyer and submarine, US and Indian naval forces will participate in the 10-day long annual Malabar exercise in the Bay of Bengal, the US 7th Fleet announce

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi hailed a 'victory of the people' but warned against triumphalism after her apparent win in elections seen as a test of the regime's burgeoning reforms.

Sharp's announcement that it will team up with Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision on a liquid-crystal display deal is the latest example of the 'tectonic changes' rippling through hard-hit Japan Inc.

A Paris court on Thursday found Jean-Paul Guerlain, the former “nose” behind the world-famous perfume brand, guilty of racial insults over his televised remarks about “negroes”, and fined him.

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The Congress-led government in Uttarakhand, which had struggled to cobble up a majority after the recent elections, on Thursday comfortably won a vote of confidence in the Assembly, with 39 MLAs voting in its favour.

In what may be called a major breakthrough on insurgency front, the top commanders of outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland holed up in Burma and Bangladesh has given their consent in writing to join the peace-process which may also facilitate the release of its chief Ranjan Daimary on bail from judicial custody in Assam.

Suspected Naxals abducted a national junior football player from his school in Maoist stronghold of Orcha in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, the police said on Thursday.

The two Maoist interlocutors — B.D. Sharma and Dandapani Mohanty — on Thursday threatened to withdraw from the negotiation process if the state government did not respond to three of the 13 demands made by rebels for releasing the Italian hostage Basusco Paolo.