Veteran Parliamentarian and former Prime MinisteAtal Bihari Vajpayee, founder member of the Bharatiya Janata Party who is held in high esteem across the political spectrum, was today conferred with Bharat Ratna,

"Three apples have changed the world. One seduced Eve, second awakened Newton, the third one was in the hands of Jobs." This was one of the most widely circulated messages doing the rounds of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and elsewhere on

A defiant BS Yeddyurappa is reported to have been served an ultimatum by the party high command – that he should either resign as Karnataka chief minister by Saturday evening or face probable sacking from the party. According to sources, the ultimatum was served

A terror attack on the Amarnath Yatra was foiled by the CPRF on Saturday (July 30). The bus was on its way back from the Yatra. There were 3 IEDS detected but they were diffused on time. According to reports CRPF personnel defused three IEDs that were kept in the bus.

The ‘game of defiance’ played to the hilt by tainted chief minister B S Yeddyurappa put the BJP high command on the mat again on Friday. He refused to step down, stating he enjoyed the majority support within the party.

Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal. Benedict’s tweet read: “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI”

A doomsday dream about massive flooding prompted Dutch man Johan Huibers to build a huge Noah’s Ark, which he plans to float down London’s River Thames.Johan, the head of a construction company in Dordrecht, western Netherlands, started work on the four-storey

The joint drafting committee meet on lokpal bill on Tuesday ended in New Delhi amid "fresh and serious" differences between the government and Anna Hazare team. The ninth and final meeting was held at the office of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, chairman of the drafting committee.

Fasting yoga guru Baba Ramdev was taken to a Dehradun hospital after his health deteriorated but his close aides insisted their leader has not called off his fast that continued for the seventh day against corruption and for retrieval of black money.Ramdev was taken in an ambulance

Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana was acquitted by a US court on charges of abetting Mumbai terror attacks but was convicted for providing material support to LeT and helping a terror plot in Denmark. The 12-member jury announced the verdict on Thursday at the end of two days

Taking on the government, civil rights activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday went on a day-long fast at Rajghat, declaring that his agitation against corruption was the "second freedom struggle" and threatened another hunger strike from August 16 if Lokpal Bill is not passed by August 15, 2011.

Six years after she was expelled for indiscipline, firebrand leader Uma Bharti on Tuesday rejoined the Bharatiya Janata Party at a crowded press conference at the party headquarters at 11 Ashok Road on Tuesday, June 7, 2011.The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister’s re-induction in the party

In a dramatic development around 1.10 am on Sunday, June 5, 2011 the government reportedly cancelled the permission for Baba Ramdev’s yoga camp at Ramlila Maidan. Chaos prevailed at the Ramlila Maidan as news..

Unleashing vengeance the al Qaeda and Taliban swore on Pakistan after US commados killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, two Taliban suicide bombers on Friday conducted deadliest attacks on the Frontier Constabulary Training Centre in Shabqadar area

Air India pilots on Friday night (April 6, 2011) called off their strike after 10 days. The government has agreed to reinstate the suspended pilots. It has also agreed to withdraw the recognition of the pilots’ union - Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA). The pilots will resume work

Prince William and Kate Middleton were on Friday pronounced man and wife at the majestic Westminster Abbey where the couple exchanged vows in the presence of some 1,900 guests, while millions of people around the world watched the ceremony live on TV.

The grand finale of Pantaloons Femins Miss India 2011 that was held on Thursday, 14 April 2011 threw up the following winners: Kanishtha Dhankhar-Pantaloons Femina Miss India World, Hasleen Kaur-Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth and Ankita Shorey-Pantaloons Femina Miss India

A national level female athlete lost her leg after being thrown out of a moving train near Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. The incident occurred on Monday after the victim, identified as 23-year-old Sonu Sinha, was coming to Noida from Faizabad on Padmavat Express for attending a Central Industrial..

The negativity surrounding the start of the XIX Commonwealth Games in New Delhi was transformed into a positive tide by the end of it.

India is all set to win a temporary seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council after a span of 19 years.

Sachin Tendulkar gave ample display of his class with a marathon unbeaten 191 as India restored the balance

A New Zealand radio presenter has stirred fresh controversy by calling Indian-origin Governor General Anand Satyanand as a "large, fat man", and commenting that his physique was "slightly incongruous" for an Indian.

Australia’s bowlers built on a century by Marcus North as the tourists seized control of the second and final cricket Test against India on Sunday

BCCI president Shashank Manohar has called an emergency meeting of the IPL Governing Council in Mumbai on Sunday to decide on the fate