The defence minister, Mr A.K. Antony, has ordered a re-investigation into the mysterious death of Captain Sumit Kohli in Jammu and Kashmir, heeding to the demands of his family that had maintained tha

A hardline Iranian newspaper stepped up its attack on French first lady, Ms Carla Bruni, saying on Tuesday that the "Italian prostitute" deserved to die for supporting an Iranian woman sentenced to de

In his most revealing comments yet on his health crisis nearly four years ago, Cuban leader, Mr Fidel Castro, has said that he "came to be dead", but then resurrected. "I came to be dead. I did not kn

Three people in Port Sudan city froze to death in a refrigerating facility which charged $2 per hour for sitting inside it.

A few local businessmen have set up big refrigerators as "cool-down facilit

A man and woman have been stoned to death in northern Afghanistan after being accused by the Taliban of having an affair, a witness and an official said on Monday.

The 23-year-old woman and 28-year-

The greatest mystery in mountain climbing involving the death of two British mountaineers who might have climbed Mount Everest in 1924, nearly 30 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached

With the recovery of more bodies, the toll in the cloudburst here on Saturday climbed to 130 even as 600 more are feared washed away in the calamity that was followed by torrential rains and flash flo

Flash floods triggered by a cloudburst has flooded the Kralpora area of frontier Kupwara district in North Kashmir, police said on Saturday.

The cloudburst which occurred on Friday flooded various a

An Indian Air Force aircraft carrying relief material from Chandigarh on Saturday made a safe landing in Jammu and Kashmir's Leh town that was lashed by massive flash floods triggered by a cloudburst.

The number of casualties in the MiG 27 fighter plane crash in West Bengal rose to three on Sunday after two children hit by splinters of the aircraft died at a hospital here, police said.

Latika Roy