There is some good news for tiger lovers: preliminary results of the second all-India tiger census, due to be released in March, show a rise in the tiger density of the country’s three major tiger lan

CBI officials on Sunday searched through the residences of several of the 13 accused in the Adarsh housing scam, including those of society general secretary R.C. Thakur, Brig. M.M.

Police and revenue officials on Sunday questioned the Karmapa Lama, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, for the second day in succession on the source of huge stacks of currency found inside his Sidhbari (Dhara-msal

With the Tamil Nadu elections just three months away, DMK supremo and chief minister M.

An Air India Boeing 747 left Mumbai for Cairo Sunday evening to bring any Indians who wanted to leave strife-torn Egypt back home.

President Hosni Mubarak, clinging on despite unprecedented demands for an end to his 30-year rule, met on Sunday with the military which is seen as holding the key to Egypt’s future while in Cairo, pr

The Union human resources development ministry is seeking a substantial hike in its budgetary allocation for the forthcoming year as it plans to implement its high-profile programmes, like the Right T

With the nation remembering Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary, a group of artists commemorated a four-century-old incident of staging “Dharna Satyagarh” by poets in the princely state of Marwar.

Maharashtra chief minister Prathviraj Chavan is finding it difficult to check mafias controlling the system through oil, sand, milk, power and other sectors besides the all powerful builders lobby.

Just six months after a collision between two ships resulted in a large oil spill in the Indian Ocean, a collision took place on Sunday evening between a Indian Navy ship and a foreign flagged merchan