India

AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on accepted the gauntlet thrown by her arch-rival DMK president M Karunanidhi for an open debate on the Cauvery issue, saying she was prepared to face him in the state assembly.

BSP MP Dhananjay Singh, accused in a rape case, was granted interim bail by a court in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Seven people, including the Political Advisor of Jharkhand Chief Minister, were injured when a lift which they took to reach the ground floor of a hotel in Bistupur area here collapsed on Tuesday, official sources said.

There was no Maoist threat in the second and last phase of polling in Odisha for 11 Lok Sabha constituencies and 77 Assembly seats on April 17, while stringent security was in place, state election officials said on Tuesday.

A sum of Rs 38 lakh was on Tuesday seized from two vehicles during election related checking at Anjanpir in Vaishali district, police said.

Actor Rajeev Khandelwal says that being in the film industry is like an endless marathon.

A woman has been allegedly killed by her husband and in-laws over dowry in Bhokaheri village area in Muzaffarnagar, police said on Tuesday.

BlackBerry has also said it would sell most of its real estate holding in Canada to improve operational efficiencies in the face of mounting losses and unsold handset inventory.

Cyrus has given her new pet Moonie to a family friend; Her last dog was reportedly killed by a coyote, last month

Barjatya has now ventured into films with 'Samrat & Co' after producing TV soaps like 'Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki'

Pro-Russian separatists on Monday ignored an ultimatum to leave occupied government buildings in eastern Ukraine.

IT professional-turned-AAP leader Adarsh Shastri on Monday lamented that Congress has "strayed" from the path of simplicity and probity as exemplified by his grandfather and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.

When asked about which actors could carry his baton forward, Bachchan said it would be unfair to name one name.

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Karnataka would change the "fortunes" of BJP and help it secure majority but the government would be formed with NDA partners, party leader Ananth Kumar said on Monday.

Taking lots of selfies is not an addiction but a symptom of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), psychologists warn.

The recent Naxal attack on an ambulance carrying CRPF personnel has affected the emergency van services in insurgency-hit Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.