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The government is likely to release food grains from its stocks in order to bring down soaring food prices, Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution KV Thomas said in Mumbai on Monday. "In the last few years the minimu...

US Vice President Joe Biden on Monday described Mahatma Gandhi as "one man who changed the world by his teachings".

An elderly man was arrested for allegedly throwing acid at a 19-year-old youth after he spurned the former's bid to involve him in some "perverted activities" in Narnadi village in Jodhpur, police said on Monday.

A case was filed on Monday against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Education Minister P K Shahi and the absconding principal of the government school where 23 children lost their lives after eating a midday meal served to them.

Disgraced former Madhya Pradesh minister Raghavji, in custody on the charge of sodomising his domestic help, on Monday demanded constitution of a medical board to examine him afresh while challenging a police report that declared him "medically fit".

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Italian veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is confident of Italy's good chances of winning the next year's FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Puyol says Vilanova asked the squad to give its utmost for the club because it would be the best way of helping him now, "and that's what we'll do."

District administration in Azamgarh has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to recommend a CBI probe into the murder of former BSP legislator Sarvesh Singh Seepu.

Actress Sana Saeed is fond of dancing. She admits to being a professional trained dancer.

Hitting out at the ruling Samajwadi Party government, Mayawati on Monday said anti-social elements are ruling the roost in the state and demanded immediate intervention of the Centre. "It seems that mafias, goondas and criminals are running the show in th...

The CBI probe into the alleged acquisition of disproportionate assets by Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh and his son Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, may be headed for a closure with investigators said to have not been able to gather enou...

A 42-year-old government doctor was found dead in his hotel room with his throat and private part slit in Kanpur Dehat area in the district, police said on Monday.

A man was killed and another got injured when a motorbike on which they were travelling was hit by a city bus at Kunda leading to traffic jam on the Delhi-Jaipur national highway for three hours, police said on Monday.

The 2007-built ship was awaiting berthing in the Gulf of Guinea at the time of the hijack last week.

Twenty three students died after consuming mid day meal at a government school Marhaura in Chhapra last week.