About 30 to 40 people were buried today in a rain-triggered landslide in China’s southwestern Sichuan Province, local officials said.

Amid tight security and monitoring by two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, the 136th Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra began in Ahmedabad this morning.

A fresh batch of 1,558 pilgrims today left the Jammu base camp for Amarnath cave shrine in South Kashmir Himalayas.

As the NIA started its probe into the serial blasts in this temple town, Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde today did not rule out the involvement of three to four persons in the attack.

The Supreme Court today asked Tata Motors to make its stand clear on its leasehold rights over the Singur land in the wake of changed scenario as the company had already moved its car plant out of West Bengal.

Heavy rains continued to wreak havoc in Uttarakhand where seven persons of a family were killed when the ceiling of their house collapsed in Chamoli district today, while four persons were killed when a machine engaged in repairing a road fell into a ditch in Garhwal.

Actor Matt Damon is glad that he is not as famous as his superstar friend Brad Pitt.

A global survey to gauge the extent of worldwide corruption pegs India high up on the world scales, sending a harsh message to the nation’s political parties for failing to curb it.

Most strikingly, 68 per cent of Indians surveyed said they did not believe the government was doing enough to fight the problem of corruption, Rukshana Nanayakkara, outreach manager for the Asia Pacific region at Transparency International, told PTI from his headquarters in Berlin.

The father of one of the victims of the 2004 Ishrat Jahan “fake” encounter, on Tuesday said his son had come to Gujarat to meet a top police officer, disputing claims that he was on a terror mission.