The all-party meeting, convened by the Karnataka government late Wednesday here, rejected the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal and endorsed the state cabinet's decision to file a review petition before it. After a three-hour... More

Farmers and Trinamool Congress workers clashed with policemen Wednesday at Singur and Haldia in East Midnapore district, in which a cop was killed, several were injured and fencing of the proposed Tata Motors plant was uprooted. While Gangamore... More

Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has been facing some bouncers off the field as well, thanks to a photograph of his with a Congress candidate in Jalandhar. The Election Commission and political parties are taking the cricketer, an official with the... More

Two protesters were killed in Terai Wednesday, taking the toll of violence in the region that has a majority of population of Indian origin to 23, even as top Nepal leaders continued to bicker among themselves about how to end the... More

The stage is set for the first of the three-phased assembly elections in Manipur Thursday with hundreds of police and paramilitary troopers taking vantage positions to thwart moves by separatist guerrillas to disrupt polling. Close to 600,000... More

Delhi High Court Tuesday asked the Delhi government to specify a date for notifying delimitation of constituencies for the upcoming municipal elections. A division bench of Justice Swatanter Kumar and H.R. Malhotra directed the government to tell... More

Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert, under investigation for his role in a bank sale, faced new allegations of corruption after media reports claimed he helped a political supporter receive a government grant. According to the allegations broadcast on... More

At least seven people were injured Tuesday after fresh clashes broke out at Nandigram in West Bengal between the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists and agitated farmers over a proposed special economic zone (SEZ). TV... More

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh beat sports, Bollywood and corporate personalities to emerge as Indian of the Year for 2006 in a poll conducted by private TV news network CNN-IBN, it was announced Tuesday. While the prime minister was expected to... More

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will hold power sharing talks with the Congress, its Democratic Front government ally, for eight of the 10 municipal corporations in the state where elections were held Feb 1, a party leader said Monday. The... More