India

650 kg of poppy straw was seized from two locations in Rajasthan by anti-narcotics sleuths.

Known for his RSS bashing, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh alleged on Thursday that the organisation gives training in the making of bombs. He told reporters that he was saying this on the basis of incidents that had taken place in the state in the past.

Millions of school children, mostly the poorest of the poor, in Bihar were not served their mid-day meal on Thursday as 300,000 school teachers began a boycott of the scheme.

Keibler insists her split from Clooney wasn't that big a deal and wishes she had a juicy story to tell.

Wonder Woman and Supergirl now have a Pakistani counterpart in the pantheon of female superheroes - one who shows a lot less skin.

Toshiba launched its 2013 range of laptops (14 and 15.6-inch devices) priced between Rs 37,961 and Rs 47,909.

A six-year-old boy, who weighed more than 60 kilograms, underwent bariatric surgery at a Indore hospital in Madhya Pradesh, becoming the youngest patient in the country to go under the scalpel for weight loss, doctors attending on him said today.

Minutes before she was arrested, Meena Devi, principal of a primary school in Bihar where 23 children died after eating contaminated food, demanded a CBI probe into the tragedy.

Opposition BJP on Wednesday accused the Nitish Kumar government of having "influenced" the probe into the midday meal tragedy by crying foul over an alleged "conspiracy" behind the incident even before the probe report could come out.

The train was travelling from Madrid to Ferrol on the Galician coast when it got derailed.

The lawyer also said that Snowden is studying "Russian culture" and has already learned a little Russian.

The Archaeological Survey of India will assess if there was any damage to the Mahabodhi temple in the blasts that rocked Bodh Gaya earlier this month, the government on Wednesday said.

At least four bomb blasts ripped through a residential area near an intelligence agency's office in Sukkur city of southern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring about 10 others.

A model with 16 gigabytes of storage will sell for $229, a $30 per increase from the original Nexus 7 released a year ago.

Former member of Parliament and MLA from Tonk Dwarak Prasad Bairwa passed away after a brief illness at SMS hospital in Jaipur, official sources said on Wednesday. He was 65.

Vettel has won his home race for the first time, savoured a first victory in North America and shown his ruthless streak in defying team orders.