India's highest polling booth in Lahaul-Spiti district Sunday recorded 80 per cent turnout for the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections, an official said.

At the Hikkim polling station, located at an

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Sunday promised to get the Lokpal Bill passed in parliament in the coming months, even as he attacked the opposition for preventing the anti-corruption legis

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday challenged the corruption charges levelled against the UPA government, saying the truth and untruth in these needs to be understood well.

"The opposition is

Thousands of Congress party workers were still pouring in at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital where the party held a huge rally Sunday to support the government's economic reforms and policies.

With his government and some ministers hit by allegations of corruption, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday reiterated that the UPA government was determined to root out corruption but it should

The state-run Star Theatre in Kolkata on Saturday stopped the screening of Bengali film Teen Kanya on the premise that it sends out an anti-state message.

West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu f

Two days after announcing the annual New York Marathon would take place Sunday as scheduled, Mayor Michael Bloomberg reversed course and cancelled the event.

"While holding the race would not require

Spanish police are investigating videos taken by security cameras in a corridor of the Madrid Arena, scene of a giant Halloween party where three people died and two were badly hurt in a stampede.

Th

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Friday said senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka would be provided security cover.

The announcement follows two threats to Khemka within a fortnight and his re

Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who had resigned as Congress spokesperson after his name surfaced in a CD row in April, was brought back on Friday to put across the party's view in TV debates, said party sourc