Close on the heels of a sharp increase in petrol prices, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) rates were hiked by a steep Rs 2 per kg today, mainly on account of a fall in the rupee value against the US dolla

Saudi King Abdullah has revoked a sentence of 10 lashes imposed on a woman for breaking the ban on women driving in the conservative kingdom, a Saudi princess said on Wednesday on her Twitter account.

Two metro trains collided in Shanghai on Tuesday, injuring more than 260 people, the city government said, just months after a deadly high-speed rail crash that shocked China.

The Shanghai Metro Comp

A small plane with 19 people on board, most of them foreign tourists on a trip to view Mount Everest, crashed in central Nepal near Kathmandu on Sunday, Nepali television channels and a government of

A small aircraft crashed near here on Sunday morning, killing all 19 people on board, but the grief and anxiety of the victims' families was compounded after they were handed out wrong names of the In

Though rescuers managed to bring out a lone survivor from the wreck of the Beech aircraft in Nepal, the grievously injured 36-year-old Nepali man, identified as Nirajan Karmacharya, died while receivi

A small group from Tiruchirappali in Tamil Nadu will on Monday travel to Nepal to bring back the bodies of the Indians killed in Sunday's air crash there.

Eight of the 10 Indians who died when a Budd

A Port Blair-Kolkata Air India flight made a priority landing here today after its wind screen developed cracks shortly before touching down, airport sources said.

Air India's flight AI-788 with 59

In the third incident of its kind in one week, an unattended baggage found at the Mumbai airport Friday created a security scare and sent officials on a wild-goose chase for a bomb.

The incident happ

The Haj plans of nearly 10,000 pilgrims have been jeopardised after the central government cancelled the licences of 170 private tour operators, an official said here on Friday.

"The licences were ca