India

Police lockups across Maharashtra have been found totally unfit for humans as stinking toilets and other unhygenic conditions abound.

Eye on Bangalore

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has defended her government's war in Iraq, despite having made "thousands of errors," as she faced protests during a tour of northwest England.

A meeting of MHA officials and 13 naxalite-affected states laid emphasis on a synergy between various police and para-military forces to fight the menace.

Passengers included 25 Britons, 20 Filipinos, 10 South Africans, 10 Egyptians and a number of Indians, Americans and Bangladeshis.

With no Sachin Tendulkar, the middle order comes under a lot of pressure if the opposition strikes early.

Four people were arrested in connection with the paper leak case of the All India Post-Graduate Medical Entrance Examination (AIPGMEE), conducted by AIIMS.

All is not well with the country's premier medical institution AIIMS. 30 docs have left the institute in the past three years.

Nepal's government has promised to crush a four-day anti-government strike called by Maoists and the unified seven party alliance.

Arjun Singh has asked state govts to raise reservations to as high as 49.5 pc. Here is how some of our readers reacted to his proposal.

There is Kabir Ali, Owais Shah and Sajid Mahmood in the squad but the man with possibly the deepest India connection is Vikram Solanki.

Abu Salem reportedly confessed that he was given a supari by B'wood actress Manisha Koirala to kill her secretary Ajit Dewani.

Ponting is only the second man to have scored two tons in a match on three occasions in a career, joining India's Sunil Gavaskar.

A growing number of students in England are cheating in their exams, with many using mobile phones, official figures reveal.

He is no de facto VIP, but more than that for a bunch of government officials. At least for a day, as they will have to set up a polling booth exclusively for him to cast his vote on April 29.

The hearing on disgraced Indian weight lifters Tejinder Singh and Edwin Raju, who failed dope tests, was adjourned yet again.