India

A Kerala-based self-styled godman has been booked for allegedly using blue beacons on his car, which are usually fitted on vehicles used by VIPs.

Fallen politician Bo Xilai put up a feisty defence on Thursday as he faced political trial, saying he was framed in one of the bribery charges against him and had admitted to it against his will during interrogation.

Seven persons have died due to encephalitis at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, taking the death toll due to the disease this year to 160. While five of the victims were from Gorakhpur, one was from Maharajganj and another from adjoining Bihar, healt...

A special court trying four adult accused for allegedly gangraping a 23-year-old paramedic in a bus in Delhi on Wednesday concluded recording of the evidence and would hear final arguments from Thursday.

The National Security Agency may have unintentionally collected as many as 56,000 emails of Americans per year between 2008 and 2011 in a program that a secret US court subsequently said may have violated US law and the Constitution, according to document...

According to the documents, only about 9 per cent of the emails - or less than 25 million - are collected from 'upstream' sources.

Beijing: In a rare praise, a leading state-run Chinese daily has lauded the launch of India's first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, saying it marks a "firm stride" towards domestic production of hi-tech arms.

Russian teenager Sergey Sirotkin will make his first appearance in a Sauber Formula One car at a demonstration event in Sochi next month.

Govind Nihalani feels his show is relevant even in today's time, when such attempts are not made.

An Egyptian court on Wednesday will hear an appeal by Hosni Mubarak in a corruption case, raising the prospects of the former dictator's release from prison.

Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampat and Election Commissioners -H S Brahma and Dr Naseem Zaidi - would pay a two-day visit to the city from August 26 in connection with the ongoing preparations for the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections.

Although curfew continued for the 13th day on Wednesday in the hilly Kishtwar town of Jammu region, wracked by communal violence Aug 9, sources in the visiting all-party delegation held out hopes of a breakthrough in peace talks later in the day between t...

The US has sanctioned a top Al Qaeda official and a madrassa in Peshawar, serving as a terrorist training centre supporting Lashkar-e-Taeba, the Pakistan based terrorist group behind the Mumbai attack, and the Taliban.

Bradley Manning, the soldier convicted of giving classified US files to WikiLeaks, will be told at 10 am EDT (1400 GMT) on Wednesday how much of his life will be spent in a military prison, a US Army spokesman said on Tuesday.

Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

India and China on Monday discussed ways to maintain peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) as well as the recent incidents of incursions. The two sides discussed issues of mutual interest including ways to reduce trade deficit duri...