India

Rio de Janeiro will bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games, the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) said on Friday.

Nirashree Munshi, a reporter in an ethnic Indian newspaper, has been crowned New Miss India California.

Without naming any nation, Pak said a "neighbouring country" had supplied ammunition and money to Bugti.

New Delhi consumer court has asked the postal department to pay Rs 2,500 as compensation to a man whose speed post parcel was lost.

Senior Baloch leader Ataullah Khan Bugti has said that all links between Balochistan and the rest of Pakistan will remain cut.

Tehran is confident of reaching a negotiated settlement over its nuclear programme, but prepared for sanction.

Gibbs livid against Delhi police for being slow in their probe.

Filmmaker Nagesh Kukunoor described his new venture Dor as the most challenging and dramatic film to date.

This is the eight time that the recording of the confessional statement of Abdul Kareem Telgi has been postponed.

Iranian President M Ahmadinejad has called on US President George W Bush to participate in a TV debate with him.

Gunfire and rioting broke out for a fourth straight day on Tuesday after the funeral Nawab Akbar Bugti.

The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday termed former PM VP Singh as being "cunning" and a "sycophantic".

Bal Thackeray accepted the throne that he had sent to Lokmat when it was returned to him by the Marathi daily.

A sessions court refused to ban director Vishal Bharadwaj's film Omkara.

The 867-page two-volume set is written in Arabic and stored in two caskets in the Jiezi mosque.

The PM on Tuesday cancelled all the programmes scheduled for the second day of his Orissa tour due to rains.