Nearly 53 percent of unwed mothers in tribal Orissa are below the age of 18, says a study by an NGO. Though there is no exact data with the government regarding the number of unwed mothers, experts believe that Orissa is home to 10,000 such... More

Thirteen government employees died in a road accident in Jharkhand when they were going to Palamau to prepare for the Lok Sabha by-election, police said. The government employees, most of them school teachers, were going from Garwah district to... More

Two people were injured Wednesday when a grenade exploded inside Bihar's Jehanabad jail. A jail official and a woman visitor were hurt after the blast, initially thought to have been triggered by Maoist guerrillas. There was panic as jail... More

By the early 1980s, Padiabadmal, a remote tribal village in Orissa's Sambalpur district had lost its forests. Lost with it were the village's age-old mechanisms to cope with drought till a farmer pioneered a movement to bring back its lost... More

A man in the national capital Monday killed his mother and brother by giving them electric shock before killing himself, police said. The accused Sanjay, 36, allegedly killed his 60-year-old mother, Kaushalya, and brother Ananay, 35, at their... More

One person was charred to death and one injured Monday when fire broke out in a provisional store in downtown Connaught Place, police said. The accident took place at 5.15 p.m. when a sudden fire broke out in the shop at Shaheed Bhagat Singh... More

Monu Mittal, the main accused in the November 2005 murder of young Indian Institute of Management (IIM) graduate S. Manjunath, was Monday given death sentence by a court here. The District and Sessions Court of Lakhimpur Kheri sentenced the other... More

The sunrays struggle to penetrate the tiny holes of a corrugated tin roof that covers the narrow passages of Kolkata's poorest of slums. In Narkeldanga, thousands of people, mostly Muslims, live under this single roof. Afrin is taking us home to... More

Iran has decided to limit its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said. The Iranian Council of Ministers met Sunday evening under chairmanship of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... More

An Indian teen who was kidnapped in broad daylight from here Saturday has been released unhurt after his family and school successfully negotiated with his abductors. Vivek Agarwal, a ninth grader student, was left by his kidnappers near the... More