An accountability court on Monday sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison in a fresh corruption conviction....
The Indian and Pakistani armies on Monday traded heavy fire on the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, defence sources said. The Pakistan Army used automatics and mortars to target Indian military and civilian facilities. "Unprovoked firing and shelling from the Pakistani side ...
Indonesian authorities have confirmed the death of at least 281 people in the devastating tsunami that hit the Sunda Strait in the western part of the archipelago on Saturday night, which also left 1,016 injured. Emergency teams on Monday resumed rescue efforts. ...
After waiting for hours barely one kilometre from the Sabarimala temple, two Kerala women devotees were escorted down the hill, as thousands of Ayyappa devotees on Monday put up a massive protest causing one of the woman to faint. Bindu from Malappuram and Kanaka Durga from Kannur, both from the hitherto...
Eight persons, including seven women, were killed in a vehicle pileup due to dense fog on the Rohtak-Rewari highway in Haryana on Monday, police said. At least 10 others were injured in the accident in which over 20 vehicles were involved....
Twenty-three ministers took oath in Rajastan on Monday. They included 13 cabinet ministers and 10 ministers of state. Governor Kalyan Singh administered the oath of office at the Raj Bhavan. The cabinet ministers are B.D. Kalla (Bikaner), Shanti Dhariwal (Kota North),...
It was sunny on Monday but most parts of Himachal Pradesh still experienced intense cold weather and Shimla shivered at 1.8 degrees Celsius, the season's lowest. The Met office forecast long sunny days with no snowfall on Christmas anywhere in the state....
A day ahead of the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, his successor Narendra Modi on Monday released a commemorative Rs 100 coin to honour the late leader, who passed away in August. Addressing a gathering at the Parliament House Annexe here, Modi said Vajpayee never compromised on the ideologies of the party...
Pollution in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) reached hazardous levels on Monday morning as minimum temperature slightly improved to 4.6 degrees Celsius, the Met said. Pollution levels depreciated to 'severe plus' category with many areas ...
Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and former West Bengal Commerce and Industries Minister Nirupam Sen died early on Monday, party said. Sen was 72. The former politburo member succumbed to multi-organ failure around 5 a.m. at a private hospital in the satellite township of Salt Lake....