British scientists have confirmed that electrons, subatomic particles that carry a negative electric charge, are almost a perfect sphere in shape.

Home minister P. Chidambaram and US secretary of homeland security Janet Napolitano will jointly launch the US-India homeland security dialogue here on Friday.

Keeping the pre-poll promises she made to Muslims, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said Urdu would be given second-language status in districts with a 10 per cent or more Urdu-speaking population.

Indian ambassador to the US Meera Shankar on Thursday said the trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, who is accused with David Coleman Headley for the 26/11 terror attacks in the US, is throwing new light on the conspiracy to carry out the worst terror strike in India.

Superstar Rajinikanth will fly to Singapore Friday night for further treatment, sources close to his family told this newspaper Thursday. He is now being treated at Chennai’s Sri Ramachandra Hospital.
They said Rajini is booked as a “wheelchair passenger” on a Singapore Airlines flight and will travel in

Former Bihar minister Ramadhar Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday surrendered in a lower court in Aurangabad after quietly remaining a proclaimed absconder for 16 years and being forced to resign from the state Cabinet following the revelation last week.

The directorate-general of civil aviation on Thursday submitted a preliminary report to the civil aviation ministry on Wednesday night’s aircrash at Faridabad, near the national capital, which indicated that the aircraft went down amid bad weather and high-velocity winds.

After a week’s politics in New Delhi, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday returned state with a list of 18 ministers who will be administered oath on Friday. Though, chief minister was at his residence and avoided meeting legislators waiting in the scorching sun at Lokpriye Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, sources in his

The Supreme Court Thursday cancelled the allotment of a 1.2-acre plot to cricketer Sourav Gangula in Kolkata’s Salt Lake Sector 5 area, saying the “discretionary quota” allotment by the state’s former Left Front government for a proposed school did not “meet the requirement of the law”.

Yet another BSP MLA has landed in the centre of controversy. A 15-year-old girl, allegedly abducted 13 days ago and recovered on Wednesday, accused the brother of a BSP MLA, Muslim Khan, of running a sex racket that was being patronised by the MLA himself. The girl, while talking to reporters in Badaun, alleged that Akram, brother of