The Passport Seva Project, an ambitious e-governance programme that aims at passport delivery in three days, has entered its most crucial stage. The rollout of 77 Passport Seva Kendras is expected to

Maverick he is and Baba Ramdev proved it once again early this morning at Ramlila Maidan as he jumped from the dais and melted into the crowd, after which it took almost an hour for the police to loca

A ten tonne polar bear camping out at Sydney's majestic Circular Quay isn't likely to survive for more than a day or two.

The bear, made of solid ice, will slowly melt into a great puddle of water un

For his doctors, Timothy Ray Brown was a shot in the dark. An HIV-positive American who was cured by a unique type of bone marrow transplant, the man known as ‘the Berlin patient’ has become an icon o

Amid all the buzz over encouraging board exam results all over India, Jharkhand's Deoghar district has a school where all its 147 students have failed in their secondary board examination.

The Jharkh

Fourteen-year-old Deepchand should be learning but instead he lies sprawled fast asleep on the floor of an Indian school, exhausted by his early morning labours finding rubbish to sell.

Abandoned by

Tata Motors on Sunday began selling the world's cheapest car, the Nano, in Sri Lanka at a price tag nearly three times higher than the cost in the Indian market.

Diesel and Motor Engineering (Dimo),

Belgium will soon become the second country in Europe to ban the burqa in public places, after the parliament approved legislation forbidding full veils, the bill's author said on Thursday.

The legis

From a hillside, Kamal Saadat looked forlornly at hundreds of potential customers, knowing he could not take them for trips in his boat to enjoy a spring weekend on picturesque Oroumieh Lake, the thir

Its name means the 'fort of triumph', and it's a symbol of the courage and culture of the Sikhs.

Qila Mubarak, the only fort built by a Sikh ruler, has withstood many attacks in its over 200-year his