22 hours ago
Joyous mood sweeps Braj bhoomi on Janmashtami
Mathura, Sep 2 - Temples across Braj Mandal, a large swathe of area around Mathura, are bustling with joy and fervour, celebrating Janmashtami -- the birthday of Lord Krishna. -- who is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.The confusion created by two Janamashtmi dates notwithstanding, the festivities in Vrindavan and Mathura reached dizzy heights with more than a lakh pilgrims doing rounds of the temp ... read more

Mumbai | 1 day ago
Six women killed in Maharashtra road accident
Mumbai, Sep 1 - Six women labourers were killed in a road accident on the Mumbai-Agra highway in Maharashtra's Dhule district, police said Wednesday.'These women were travelling in a truck along with sacks of grain. The driver, while trying to overtake another truck, rammed into a tree,' an official said. The driver was injured and taken to a nearby hospital. Those killed have been identified as ... read more

Agra | 1 day ago
Agra farmers write petition in blood
Agra, Sep 1 - Agitating farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Agra district Wednesday wrote a petition in their blood to protest acquisition of their lands for townships along the 165-km Noida-Agra Yamuna Expressway.The farmers plan to give the petition to senior police and administrative officials for forwarding it to President Pratibha Patil and Uttar Pradesh Governor B.L. Joshi. The agitators staged a ... read more

Agra | 2 days ago
Flooded Yamuna brings on Janmashtami fervour in Braj
Agra/Mathura -, Sep 1 - Perhaps the Yamuna was in spate just like this centuries ago when Lord Krishna was born. As the flooded river meanders its way through the land of the cowherd god, hordes of curious people have converged on the ghats in Vrindavan, Mathura and Agra, creating a colourful setting for Jamashtami festival.'Around Lord Krishna's birthday, there are such refreshing and divine scen ... read more

Madrid | 2 days ago
Male sex slave ring busted in Spain
Madrid, Sep 1 - Police in Spain have busted a ring engaged in sexually exploiting men recruited from Brazil and forced to work round the clock under death threats.A total of 64 men and a few transvestites were brought to Spain from Brazil's Maranhao state. Some of the men, aged 22 to 29, knew they were coming as prostitutes, while the rest had no idea what was in store for them. They thought they ... read more

New Delhi | 2 days ago
India assures Lanka's displaced Tamils of help in resettlement
New Delhi/Colombo, Aug 31 - Amid concerns in India about the plight of war-displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao Tuesday visited their camps in northern and eastern Sri Lanka and assured them of New Delhi's commitment to accelerating the process of their resettlement.Rao, who arrived in Colombo Monday night on a four-day visit, visited the internally displaced people - in V ... read more

New Delhi | 2 days ago
Won't make public records on emergency: President's secretariat
New Delhi, Aug 31 - The president's secretariat has declined to provide information on a Right To Information - plea on what transpired between then president Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and prime minister Indira Gandhi before the emergency was imposed in 1975.In reply to a RTI plea, the secretariat cited Article 74 of the constitution which notes that the advice tendered by the cabinet to the president ... read more

Kolkata | 2 days ago
Third Maoist surrenders in West Bengal
Kolkata, Aug 31 - A member of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist active in West Bengal's West Midnapore district surrendered Tuesday, taking to three the number of Left-wing rebels who have given themselves up to the security forces over the past few days.Bibhuti Mahato, a member of the Madan Mahato squad of the Maoists, surrendered at the Belpahari police station of Jhagram sub-division ... read more

Mexico City | 3 days ago
I was at death's door, says Castro
Mexico City, Aug 31 - After a serious illness that took him four years to recover, former Cuban president Fidel Castro has said he felt like he 'rose from the dead into a world of crazies' and that he 'didn't aspire to live any longer'.Castro, in an exclusive five-hour conversation with Carmen Lira, editor of Mexican daily La Jornada, said he was almost 'at death's door'. The Cuban leader said af ... read more

Chandigarh | 4 days ago
In spotlight: Haryana's land acquisition policy
Chandigarh, Aug 30 - From Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, everyone is talking about it. Haryana's land acquisition policy is suddenly in the spotlight over three years after it was notified for the benefit of farmers whose lands were being acquired by the government for development.It is now being studied as a benchmark by the central government to have a uniform pol ... read more