With India's wedding season in full swing, the glass sales counters in Mumbai's famed Zhaveri gold bazaars are crowded with customers eyeing elaborate headpieces, nose rings and necklaces. No one does jewelry quite like an Indian bride, who by tradition wears all the gold she…

New Delhi: The Winter Session of Parliament will commence from today. 38 bills, including the Lokpal, Women's Reservation, Telangana and Street Vendors Bills, are slated for passage during the session which will conclude on December 20.Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath had earlier said that…

A US federal Court has given Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) time till Dec 3 to file an amended complaint against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in an alleged human rights violation case.Despite opposition from Gandhi's attorneys, the federal court here Monday granted the Sikh rights…

The euphoria over an auto rickshaw with a ticking meter has died down in Chennai, and the days of haggling over rates are creeping back, say many commuters. More and more drivers are refusing to work with a meter, they allege. Over 70 days ago,…

India on Tuesday will kick off wargames with two military superpowers, the US and China, striking a fine balance amid the geopolitical jostling between the two for supremacy in the crucial Asia-Pacific region. Even as 162 Indian soldiers touched down in an IAF IL-76 at…

Indian security forces are preparing for one of their most challenging assignments in decades, protecting prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in a country with a grim history of political assassinations.A series of small bombs killed six people at a rally Modi held in the…

A railway employee dies in the line of duty on four days out of five, making his job statistically far more dangerous than that of security forces in some of India's most violent combat zones.An average 300 railwaymen have been killed in accidents every…

Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the centre and Tamil Nadu on a petition seeking protection to fishermen from the state from being captured by the Sri Lankan Navy."Not only they captured the fishermen, but also damaged their boats" and it takes months before…

​Yet another application by the Talwars was rejected by the special CBI court in the Aarushi-Hemraj trial on Wednesday. No surprises there, all the pleas the Talwars have made to the trial court in the last six months have been turned down. And when they…

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal today refused to accept security cover for himself by Uttar Pradesh police with party leaders saying it was against their ideology.Upon the direction of Home Ministry, some officials of the Local Intelligence Unit (LIU) of…