New Delhi, With the arrest of five persons, including four Ethiopian nationals, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has claimed to have dismantled a trans-national drugs syndicate active in the national capital.

Officials said that they have also recovered 7 kg of premium quality cocaine from the possession of

Guwahati,  A Bangladeshi woman, imprisoned for the last four months on charges of illegally entering India, has given birth in a jail here, officials said on Wednesday.

Chandni Sheikh is a resident of Dhaka in Bangladesh.

According to the officials, two years ago, she, along with her husba

Patna,  A question paper in a Bihar government school termed Kashmir as a "separate country" triggering a political war in the state.

The question was asked to the students of Class 7 last week in the minority dominant Araria, Purnea and Kishanganj districts, and came to the fore after the BJP

New Delhi,  Runner-up in the Congress president poll, Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday thanked his supporters, and said that the elections will galvanise the party and its revival has begun.

"I have always expressed the view that these elections, irrespective of the outcome, must ultimately strengthen th

Chennai,  A flood alert has been sounded in 20 villages of Vellore in Tamil Nadu, after 844 cusecs of water was discharged from the Mordhana dam to the river Koundinya, a tributary of Palar.

Vellore district collector Kumarvel Pandian issued the alert.

In the wake of heavy rains pounding V

Srinagar,  The security forces in a swift operation averted a major terror plot by timely neutralising an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Wednesday on the Handwara-Baramulla Highway in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

The Army said the IED was defused in a joint operation by them and the Jammu and

New Delhi,  Mallikarjun Kharge was on Wednesday elected as the new Congress President after he received 7,897 votes, while his rival Shashi Tharoor managed to secure only 1,072.

Although the counting of votes has ended, official results are yet to be announced.

A total of 416 votes were de

Kolkata,  Sourav Ganguly's exit as BCCI president has become a subject of political spat rather than a sports administration affair.

The matter has taken such a political turn that even the most prominent faces of the ruling and the opposition parties in the state, namely Chief Minister Mamata Banerj

Mumbai,  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited the Hotel Taj Mahal Palace in south Mumbai and paid homage to the victims killed in the dastardly terror strikes of November 26, 2008, here on Wednesday.

Guterres said he was deeply moved to visit Mumbai where "one of the most barbaric terrorist

Mathura (Uttar Pradesh),  A cattle smuggler sustained a bullet injury in an encounter and was later arrested by the Mathura police in the early hours of Wednesday.

Kosi Kalan Circle Officer (CO) Gaurav Tripathi, said, "The encounter occurred near Kosi Kamar Road in the Kosi Kalan area police station