Lucknow, Feb 11: Polling began today on a slow note for the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 59 seats in 10 districts that will decide the fate of two state presidents, 31 MLAs and 24 former ministers. ...

Lucknow: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh today rejected Law Minister Salman Khurshid's claim that Batla House encounter picture brought tears into the eyes of Congress president Sonia Gandhi....

New Delhi: Army Chief General VK Singh lost the battle over his age as the Supreme Court on Friday said that 1950 will be treated as the Army Chief's year of birth. Following this, General VK Singh withdrew his plea from the Supreme Court after the court decided that 1950 will be treated as his year of birth for all service matters....

New Delhi: A 13-year-old student kidnapped and raped by a 30-year-old after she snubbed his friendship request, a teenaged girl gang raped by two men in a car and another yet to be traced after being forced into a car by two youths....

Beijing: Describing the situation in Tibet as "grave", China has ordered authorities there to prepare themselves for "a war against secessionist sabotage" by the Dalai Lama amid reports that security forces shot dead two Tibetans protesters. ...

Male: Just days after being sworn in as the new President, Mohammed Waheed on Saturday ruled out the possibility of early polls. Rejecting former president Mohammed Nasheed's demands calling for early elections, Waheed said that the current situation in the island nation was not conducive to holding "free and fair elections".....

New York: Despite economic woes, wars, conflicts and natural disasters the world is a happier place today than it was four years ago and Indonesians, Indians and Mexicans seem to be the most contented people on the planet...

New Delhi: India's dashing left-hander, Yuvraj Singh, who is currently undergoing chemotheraphy for germ-cell cancer at a cancer institute in the US, has revealed his new look, on his twitter profile....

Bangalore: Former New Zealand cricket great Richard Hadlee believes that India should persist with the veteran trio of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman for some more time....

PERTH: Sri Lanka rode on Angelo Mathews' heroics to very nearly pull off a sensational victory before falling short by just five runs against Australia in a nerve-wrecking cricket tri-series match on Friday...