Almost a month after the US raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad, a US drone attack eliminated his potential successor, Ilyas Kashmiri, in the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan, officials said on Saturday.

Crochet. Remember that knit type thing which was mum’s favourite leisure activity? I remember her making these white placemats with crochet. I used to find it fascinating as the needle went up and down creating pretty patterns in minutes. This is now a big fashion statement.

Three Indian musicians have come together to create a song to support World Environment Day celebrations. Written by Sam Panchamukhi, voiced by Shubha Mudgal and composed by Debjyoti Mishra, the song praises nature and aims to create awareness among Indians about the depleting forest cover. This is also the theme for this year’s Environment Day celebrations.

The World Environment Day is being celebrated across the globe today, but leaving these few select occasions how many of us actually think about doing something substantial to help protect the earth? Many of us may have talked, read or even delivered speeches about how to save the environment, but only a few do their bit to make a

Some in the group of about six uniformed police officials that included SP Garima Mallik, who were present at the spot where a Bihar boy hit by a bullet in police firing and lying motionless was kicked repeatedly by a Home Guard jawan, were encouraging the jawan, saying “Maar saale ko (Hit the damned fellow).”

Sir Vidia has cocked a snook at women writers by labelling their works “feminine tosh” and claims their writing reflects “a narrow vision of the world”. He believes a woman is not a complete master of a house and that comes across in her writing too.

The CBI on Saturday arrested five suspects, including the alleged kingpin, a radiologist operating from Agra, of an inter-state gang for manipulating the examination process of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)’s Post Graduate (PG) entrance test.

The omission of senior BJP leaders from display boards and hoardings put up to welcome delegates for the BJP’s national executive has generated considerable bad blood.

Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) has hiked CNG prices by 50 paise per kilogram in Delhi from Saturday midnight. The company has also increased CNG price by 55 paise per kg in Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, mounted a blistering attack on the Congress-led UPA government and accused it of step-motherly treatment with non-Congress ruled state.