JABALPUR/JHANSI: Further denting India's image as a country unsafe for women, lathi-wielding goons attacked a Swiss tourist and her companion, who were camping in Datia, a town 65km from Gwalior, and several of the men dragged the 39-year-old woman to a clearing near her tent and gang-raped her.

Ludhiana: Two children were killed and four others injured when a truck crashed through a school boundary wall and hit them on the outskirts of Ludhiana Industrial Town today. The injured have been rushed to the local hospital and two of the children are said to be seriously hurt. The truck h

New Delhi : The BJP's Sushma Swaraj today asked why Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde was not in the Lok Sabha when the House honoured the memory of five soldiers from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) who were killed in a suicide attack by militants in Srinagar yesterday. When he arrived i

New Delhi: Airports of Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad are among the top five airports in the world providing international standard services. Airports Council International (ACI), a global body of airports, has adjudged Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport as second best after Seoul

Lucknow: Over the next eight months, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will gift nearly 15 lakh laptops to first-year college students. Just to remind the lucky recipients of who they have to thank for their freebie, the Hewlett-Packard laptops, worth Rs. 19,000 each, will boot up w

The main accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape of a 23-year-old has committed suicide in Delhi's Tihar Jail Monday morning, police said. According to a police official, Ram Singh, 33, the prime accused in the case committed suicide around 5.00 a.m. in ward no. 5 of Jail No.3 in Tihar jail. "An inqui

Kunda: Six months before he was shot dead in the constituency of politician Raja Bhaiya, senior police officer Zia-ul-Haque had prepared a list of cases against the MLA. Charges in the 47 cases listed against him include murder,  conspiracy to murder and violations under the Gangster Act. Raj

NEW DELHI: Expressing confidence that growth would bounce back to 7-8 percent, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that the opposition should be more objective in assessing the work of the government. An acerbic Manmohan Singh also said "men of envy" disparage everything. "I agree to

Expressing confidence that growth would bounce back to 7-8 per cent, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that the opposition should be more objective in assessing the work of the government. Dr. Singh also said “men of envy” disparage everything. “I agree to Leader of Opposition Arun Jai

Streamline the party organisation and put in place a system that will bridge the communication and coordination deficit, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi told central office-bearers here on Wednesday evening. In the next fortnight, he added, he intended bringing together PCC chiefs, CLP leade

Opposition on Wednesday slammed the UPA on issues of “uncontrolled” corruption and “ineffective” implementation of welfare schemes, saying the difference between the government’s words and deeds was clearly visible. Resuming the debate of the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address, Shahnawaz

BJP today took jibes at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on his comments that becoming Prime Minister is not his priority, saying he has realised that there is no chance of his becoming the PM. "Rahul Gandhi has realised that he will not become the Prime Minister as BJP-led NDA will form the governme

LONDON: A 12-year-old Indian girl has recorded an incredible score in one of the world's toughest IQ tests that makes her smarter than scientist Albert Einstein and physicist Stephen Hawking. Neha Ramu, who migrated to the UK along with her doctor parents five years ago, achieved a score of 162 o

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi today shared his agenda with MPs from his party in an impromptu session. "The Prime Minister's post is not my priority. I believe in long-term politics," the 42-year-old said, while stressing that the Congress's infamous "high command culture" must be over-written with power

  Satara, Maharashtra: Raj Thackeray's politics of hate were applied to young children today. At a school in Western Maharashtra, north Indians trying to get their children admitted to a local school were assaulted by Raj Thackeray's party workers. Members of Mr Thackeray's Maharasht

New Delhi: Activist and politician Arvind Kejriwal has been invited to replace Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the keynote speaker at an event at the Wharton Business School later this month. Mr Modi was dropped last night as the main speaker at the Wharton India Economic Forum, large

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday kept aside his politics of development to launch a direct attack on the “family first” Nehru-Gandhi clan, “night watchman” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and “commission seeking” Congress-led UPA government for crippling the nation like “termites”. On

New Delhi - In a huge relief to passengers from abroad, the government raised the limit on the gold that can be carried by passengers through the customs of the airports in the country. Presenting the 82nd budget, union minister for finance P Chidambaram announced that the government will allow m