A 67-year-old villager from Chennai and a young hostel-bred teenager have one thing in common - the lingering trauma of ragging. Both came forward to discuss their nightmares before members of a committee probing into the issue of ragging in... More

India and Pakistan Wednesday decided to stay committed to their peace process despite the terror assault on a cross-border train and signed a nuclear risk reduction treaty to bridge the trust deficit between South Asia's nuclear powers. Foreign... More

Virtual absence of security detail at the Old Delhi railway station for the Attari Special packed with passengers bound for Pakistan had made the train a prime terror target. The 4001 up Attari Special works as a feeder train for the Samjhauta... More

The Haryana Police Wednesday let off Karachi resident Usman Mohammed after detaining him in the wake of the terror bombings on the peace train on suspicion that he could be an accomplice, even as raids were conducted at several places in Haryana to... More

Even as India and Iran continue their talks to push a trilateral gas pipeline, the government Wednesday banned the export of any material and technology to Tehran that could help in the development of its nuclear weapons programme. The decision... More

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Andhra Pradesh police Wednesday searched offices of Margadarsi Financiers, owned by media baron C. Ramoji Rao, for allegedly violating the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act. Armed with the search... More

When woodcutters began felling a tree inside the compound of a Sufi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir last week, they were surprised to find "impressions of Quranic verses" on the wood. It was divine intervention against cutting of trees! Or so... More

Saying they had vital leads, police Tuesday released sketches of two suspected perpetrators of a train bombing that left 68 Pakistanis and Indians dead in what could have been a well-planned terror attack, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh... More

Nineteen school children and three teachers, out on a picnic, were drowned when their boat capsized on a reservoir in this tourist resort late Tuesday evening. Anxious parents have started crowding the local hospital to look for their children. A... More

Unfazed by terror blasts on their friendship train that killed 68 people of both countries, India and Pakistan will intensify the peace process by signing a defining nuclear risk reduction treaty and holding talks on sensitive issues like curbing... More