The Indian Navy intercepted a suspicious ship in the Arabian Sea off Mumbai late on Sunday night and recovered some arms from the vessel, an official said here on Monday.

The vessel, M.V. Nafis, sai

Mobile phones across the Kashmir Valley fell silent Monday as service providers switched off the facility following instructions from the security agencies on Indian Indpendence Day.

The cell phones

A social organisation here marked Independence Day on Monday a bit differently, by launching a unique project to provide dignified employment to eunuchs and wean them away from their life of beggary a

The Indian Navy says that the cargo ship it intercepted late on Sunday may have been hijacked and used for smuggling contraband.

The 500-tonne M.V. Nafis-I had been drifting for the past 20 days in t

A 28-year-old man floated in the sea here for three hours holding the tri-colour aloft as part of celebrating the country's 65th independence day.

Rajendrakumar of Mandapam Fishermen Colony told the

It was another laidback national holiday for most Indians, with not many bothering to switch on their TV to listen to what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to say on Independence Day. However, most o

The Indian navy said on Monday it had captured a hijacked cargo ship floating off the Mumbai coast in the Arabian Sea and towed it back to the shore with nine people on board.

Navy spokesman Commande

Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda on Monday launched the 'Dal Bhat' scheme on Independence Day under which lunch will be provided at Rs.5 to a poor person.

"We are launching the lunch scheme at Rs

The government will lay emphasis on health in the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17) and funds will not be a constraint in the areas of education and health, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday.

"I

Police prevented Congress MPs belonging to Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region from hoisting the national flag at the Telangana martyrs' memorial on Independence Day on Monday.

The MPs, state legislato