A week after national security adviser Shiv Shankar Menon visited Beijing, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao held closed-door talks with the Dalai Lama here on Saturday, with a Tibetan official saying “issues of common interest” were discussed. The talks at the official palace of the Tibetan spiritual leader lasted about 90 minutes, said an official.

Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) workers on Saturday halted trains and blocked roads in several places across Bihar to enforce their statewide shutdown to protest th

At least 63 special trains will be run for pilgrims during the Rath Yatra, the annual nine-day chariot festival of Lord Jagannath, in Orissa's temple city of Puri, an official said on Saturday.

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With no rains in flood-affected areas of Haryana and Punjab in the last two days, authorities have stepped up efforts to provide relief to the marooned people in both states.

District authorities and

The Indian foreign ministry has also succumbed to the charms of the little bird. It has created a Twitter account and got several followers already.

In probably the first effort by a government minis

British researchers may have uncovered a partial answer to the age-old question, "what came first the chicken or the egg?"

According to a team, comprising researchers from the University of Warwick

IIT-Kanpur will soon form a committee to probe the death of one of its students following an uproar among his batch mates. Rakesh Kumar Thakur, who hailed from Bihar's Darbhanga district, died on July

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP, Ms Brinda Karat, has written to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, urging a separate law to deal with honour killings instead of referring the issu

Brussels, July 9: The European Union on Friday allocated $2.52 million in aid for the people affected by the present situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

“Fatalities still occur in the region, and armed g

The Congress President, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, on Saturday asked the minister of state for coal, statistics and programme implementation, Mr Sriprakash Jaiswal, to make inquiries into the death of an 8-yea