Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday dismissed speculation of a rift between defence minister A.K. Antony and Army Chief Gen. V.K. Singh.

The family of Mumbai businessman Roshan Jamal Khan is set to move the European Court of Human Rights against a Spanish court for wrongly convicting him of being part of a terror group that plotted a terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, his lawyer said here Thursday.

A senior minister in Punjab's Parkash Singh Badal government was on Friday held guilty by a court here for conspiracy in the death of her own daughter in April 2000 and sentenced to five years rigorou

India’s first nationwide study on cancer was simultaneously published in the prestigious British medical journal Lancet and released to the media at the Tata Memorial Hospital here Wednesday.

Cancer deaths accounted for six per cent of deaths across all ages, but among the 30-69 years age group this rose to eight per cent of the 25 lakh total male deaths and 12 per cent of the 16 lakh total female deaths.

A day after arresting one of the key members of a Madhya Pradesh-based gang that funded terrorist activities, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Tuesday arrested two more senior members of the same gang.

Twelve Central Reserve Police Force personnel, including three sub-inspectors, were killed and at least 28 constables were injured after armed Naxalites triggered a blast in their bus on an inter-state road in Dhanora taluka in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district Tuesday morning.

Officials of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Monday arrested a dreaded criminal from Madhya Pradesh who was wanted for his alleged involvement in the 2008 Ahmedabad bomb blasts, as well as the murder of two policemen and several other crimes. ATS officials said one of his associates was shot dead in an encounter, which also left a policeman injured.

Officials of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Monday arrested a dreaded criminal from Madhya Pradesh who was wanted for his alleged involvement in the 2008 Ahmedabad bomb blasts, as well as the murder of two policemen and several other crimes. ATS officials said one of his associates was shot dead in an encounter, which also left a policeman injured.

In what amounts to a virtual change of guard in Uttar Pradesh's top police establishment, Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday reshuffled 112 officers, including four directors general of police (DGPs) and 65 of the state's 75 superintendents of police (SPs).