India

Major markets across the Capital are shut and there's heavy police deployment across the city with the Traders' strike.

AP has been lashed with continuous rain since Sunday leading to low pressureand the formation of a cyclonic storm.

Beijing opened its first clinic for gays which will provide free check-up for STD and AIDS for a year.

Mira Nair is making a film on the Beatles and their stay at an ashram in Rishikesh in the late 1960s.

BJP lashes out at Arundhati Roy for referring to Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal as a prisoner-of-war.

Iran officially confirmed that it has stepped up uranium enrichment by injecting gas into a second network of centrifuges.

Mohammed Fahad, one of two alleged terrorists arrested in Mysore on Friday, entered India on a 45-day visa.

PM Manmohan Singh asserted that poverty, illiteracy and unemployment would be eradicated from the country in 10 to 20 years.

The South Korean commandos are sharpening their skills to carry out a key part of sanctions against the North.

A Q khan had written a letter to his daughter and another to Iranians, which were intercepted, says Pak officer.

Over the last seven years, a typical female millionaire's fortune in UK has increased by about £7 lakh.

The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 will come into effect from Thursday.

Pakistan has sought reconsideration of Washington's decision not to enter into a nuclear accord with it.

An AP photographer was freed unharmed after a harrowing day by Palestinians who abducted him on gunpoint.

Pranab Mukherejee was first inducted into the Union Council of Ministers in 1973 as Deputy Minister for Industry.

Subhash Ghai announced seven new films which will have in their credits directors such as Nagesh Kukunoor and Anurag Basu.