Curfew was on Sunday lifted from the entire Kashmir Valley following improvement in the situation after days of violent street protests and police firing.

Relative calm prevailed in the city and oth

The governor of the Iraqi district of Niniveh survived an assassination attempt in the city of Mosul on Sunday, but two other people were killed in the explosions and nine others injured, police said.

The CBI on Saturday took custody of former minister Amit Shah after the Gujarat High Court accepted the agency's plea for his two-day remand in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

The centra

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Saturday alleged that the Trinamool Congress, led by the railway minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, and Maoists were working in tandem and over 250 CPI-M act

The Bihar Chief Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, on Saturday met the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and sought an immediate financial assistance of over Rs 5,000 crore from the Centre to tackle the drou

The offer of "quiet dialogue" by the Union home minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has not gone down too well with separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir with hardline leader, Mr Syed Ali Geelani, rejectin

T.S. Darbari, ousted joint director general of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, has sought to clear his name from being associated with charges of financial impropriety regarding an event in London, saying he was not involved in any way in selecting the vendors.

President, Ms Pratibha Patil, will visit Mizoram and Tripura next month to attend the convocations of universities of the two northeastern states, officials said on Saturday.

"The President would arr

Pakistani prosecutors on Saturday filed an application before an anti-terrorism court seeking voice samples of LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects in the Mumbai attack case, the

India defeated Sri Lanka by five wickets in the third and the final cricket Test and levelled the three-match series 1-1 here on Saturday at the P.Sara Oval.

Set a victory target of 257, India made 2