Prevention of Money Laundering Act invoked for Mysore arrests, will now be used against Lashkar men

Navjot Singh Sidhu is known for using more words than needed in speeches and cricket commentary. Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has found a similar problem with his resignation letter as well.

A Day after Maharashtra's Dalit heartland went up in fiery protest, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today pulled up Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh...

Amid the din over the Sachar committee report and the Parliamentary Standing Committee's report advocating affirmative action for "socially and economically backward minorities"...

As its noises over the Shibu Soren conviction were getting more and more shrill, the BJP leadership had to suddenly shift gear today to do damage-control when its Amritsar MP...

What is the situation? Tense, the police officer replied. What is their body language? Aggressive, came the reply.

The recent amendment in the Senate version of the Indo-US civil nuclear cooperation Bill seeking a co-operative threat reduction programme with India is not binding on the Bush Administration...

NEW YORK : The greenback's decline deepened Friday, with the euro breaching US$1.33 and the British pound hitting 14-year highs, after US manufacturing contracted in November. The euro hit its highest levels since March 2005 to stand at US$1.3337 around

Hundreds-of-thousands of members of Iranian-backed Shi'ite movement and their supporters surrounded offices of PM Siniora Friday, in effort to force his resignation and replace current Cabinet with a 'unity government'

NEW YORK - Wall Street shares closed lower Friday after a gauge of manufacturing activity displayed a surprise contraction, raising fears that the US economic slowdown may be deepening. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 27.80 points (0.23 percent)

President Bush to receive bipartisan advice on troop levels and diplomatic initiatives in Iraq

The findings of the Iraq Study Group, leaked this week to the media, reportedly recommend withdrawal of U.S. combat forces by early 2008. President Bush continues to reject any talk of a specific timetable. " E-Mail This " Add to

Michele Norris talks with Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist who's been covering Iraq's healthcare system for Inter Press Service, a nonprofit news organization focusing on developing countries. Jamail will talk about the politicization of healthcare in Iraq, as well as

In the latest sectarian violence in Baghdad, residents awoke this morning to the sound of helicopter gunships firing into the city center. U.S. troops in the air and on the ground rushed to the Iraqi Health Ministry building after it

MAINZ, Germany : VfB Stuttgart wasted the chance to move to the top of the Bundesliga table after a disappointing 0-0 draw with relegation candidates Mainz 05. A win would have seen Stuttgart temporarily replace Schalke 04 at the summit

LONDON : Britain's radioactive poisoning affair took a dramatic new twist as officials confirmed that a close contact of dead Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko had also tested positive for radiation. Italian academic Mario Scaramella was admitted to University College Hospital

Cluster bombs deny farmers their land and they will risk life and limb. It's the same in Southern Lebanon today as it was in South Vietnam in the early 1970s. In Vietnam, where I was a journalist and social worker

French Socialist Party presidential candidate Segolene Royal on Friday urged Lebanon's political factions to return to dialogue amid mass anti-government protests in Beirut. "Time is of the essence - at any moment things could fall over the edge," Royal said

A United Nations human rights inquiry said on Friday that Israel should be made to pay compensation for damage caused by its month-long war in Lebanon this past summer, especially losses incurred by civilians. It suggested setting up an international