About one-fifth of youngsters in China's Shanghai city are overweight and their numbers are on the rise, say health experts.

According to Shanghai health experts, as much as 19.3 percent of local you

The 107-storey-tall Princess Tower in Dubai has been recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest residential building.

Measuring 414 metres from base to tip, the tower comprises six b

An engineering girl student of Sharda University here allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the fifth floor of hostel on Monday.

Both houses of parliament were disrupted Tuesday over the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reportedly pointing to a loss of over Rs.180,000 crore ($40 billion) in the allotment of coal blocks.

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The crisis in Air India raged on for the 15th day on Tuesday and the national carrier's losses mounted to Rs250 crore as the impasse between agitating pilots and the management continued.

"The loss d

Chelsea striker Didier Drogba will make his maiden visit to India next month.

Drogba, who was instrumental in Chelsea's maiden Champion League triumph last week, is coming to India for the Grand Fina

Nearly 75 million youths across the world will stay unemployed in 2012, said a report released on Tuesday by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

This accounts for 12.7 per cent of the global

India will open their campaign in the 2012 Olympics hockey competition in London with a game against the Netherlands July 30, according to the schedule released by the International Hockey Federation

A minor boy on Tuesday received burns after hot water was thrown on him when he was entering a shopping plaza to buy toffees in Uttar Pradesh, police said. The boy blamed a shop keeper for the inciden

A 21-year-old student has become the youngest British woman to reach the summit of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.

Mollie Hughes, from Bristol, and her team made it to the 8,848-metre summit