Talking for the first time about her husband’s drinking habits, former US First Lady Laura Bush has said that President George W. Bush was a “bore” when he had too much.

US President Barack Obama on Monday said that the legacy of Daniel Pearl, the American journalists who was kidnapped, tortured and killed by militants in Pakistan in 2002, lives on.

India will send an eight-member recurve archery squad to vie for top honours in the upcoming World Cup Stage II at Antalya (Turkey) from June 7 to11, the Archery Association of India (AAI) said on Monday.

Mafia and India’s most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai bombings, figures third on the Forbes’ Most Wanted list which has been topped by Osama Bin Laden.

Nepal will organise a marathon at the Everest base camp to focus global attention on environmental pollution and climate cha-nge in the Himalayas at the end of May.

An industrialist was detained for questioning in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh in the Ajmer dargah blast case by the Rajasthan anti-terrorist squad, the police here said Sunday.

A multi-cordon security blanket will be thrown to thwart any terrorist plot during the two-month-long Amarnath yatra beginning July 1.

Dr Ratan Kumar Sinha, who is closely associated with the design and development of India’s first thorium based advanced heavy water reactor, will be the new director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

The heat wave continued unabated in northern India on Sunday with temperatures touching the 47ºC mark at places in Rajasthan and Haryana.

Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday said the controversial statements by his Cabinet colleague Jairam Ramesh against the home ministry had put the government in an “embarrassing” situation.