That Bihar has been one of the top beneficiaries of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's largesse in the last four years is no secret.

A gang of boys dream of becoming the best boy band ever. Just when everything seems to be coming together, Magik falls apart.

Strangely, for most parts of this fifth one-day international, it looked as if it was India who were playing for pride rather than their beaten opponents in the series.

The tragedy for the 20 lakh displaced in Bihar due to the flooding of the Kosi is going to be a long-drawn affair...

Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday with a scathing assessment of John McCain...

Its democracy, always stunted, has another chance. So watch the chaos, watch Kiyani and the politicians

The immediate crisis over Marathi signboards for all shops in Mumbai might have subsided with the intervention of the Bombay High Court...

Fears of a poor growth performance in this fiscal were confirmed today as GDP growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal hit...

The interest in paediatric sleep disorders over the last few decades has had its focus on the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome...

A day after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray was snubbed by the Bombay High Court over his party's campaign for Marathi signboards...

Chandrama Singh urf Chamku sees his father shot in the head right in front of his eyes.

In the 48 hours preceding the breach in the Kosi embankment, the Bihar government's Water Resources Department had twice...

Good, great or something else, Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech unquestionably confronted two of his greatest challenges.

Obama's made history. But has he tacked enough to the centre, McCain would be asking

"I cried on Monday when Michelle spoke," Rep. John Lewis told me Wednesday at the Pepsi Center...

The government has asked Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority to work out schemes for the entire working population...

Young women who experience more than one stressful life event are at greater risk of developing breast cancer...

Choose your favourite preposterous factoid from one of the biggest upsets in tennis history.

A police informer who infiltrates terrorist organisations has to walk the thin edge very carefully. One tiny slip can mean death.

Work at Tata Motors' small-car factory came to a halt on Friday as the company decided not to ferry its employees from Kolkata to Singur...

At the Invesco Field at Mile High, I asked The Nation magazine columnist and poet Katha Pollitt to tell me if there had been any moments of poetry at this Democratic convention.

Chiranjeevi's broken into AP politics. That wouldn't happen in a northern state

At an Independence Day ceremony for Indian nationals in Abu Dhabi, Talmiz Ahmad, Indian ambassador to the U.A.E...

A day after Tata Motors called back its employees from Singur, citing constant intimidation by Trinamool Congress workers...

Another commendable aspect of Indian diets is the variety of grains that are a consistent part of it.

Instead of walking leisurely, you almost feel a childish urge to run to the top of Raisina Hill's gentle slope...

In his first interview since taking over as Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President, Manikrao Thakre debunked the perception in political circles...

If you really, really want more, here it is: three losers - badly-treated 'baap' Anupam, insulted spouse Rajpal, and 'kadka' lover Tusshar play a prank...

Politburo statement public censure, says Biman: disconnect between party and govt

The United States and Russia on Thursday traded some of their sharpest words over the conflict in Georgia...

This column has been arguing that the 1977 poverty line, prepared by a task force I had chaired...

The response to the PML-N withdrawal from the ruling coalition was not one of great surprise.

Conjunctivitis is a communicable disease and spreads mostly during summer and the rainy season.

The Cabinet today approved the Companies Bill, 2008, that proposes to free 7 lakh companies in India from the clutches...

Taking a much-needed water break after 35 minutes of resultless play, a struggling Mohd. Rafi had little clue that he would...

The Human Resource Development Ministry has shot down one of the key recommendations made by the Sachar Committee...

Director: Andrew Stanton It's an idea, Stanton says, that came up while they were throwing around some, one day in Pixar Studios...

Pakistan's ruling PPP's presidential candidate Asif Ali Zardari has shifted residence to the heavily guarded Prime Minister's House over security fears...

It was Somerset Maugham who observed that American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only look for in their butlers.

The Democratic convention witnessed both soaring rhetoric and hard logic

Even as economic growth for April-June 2008 slowed down to 7.9 per cent, the Reserve Bank of India...

Standing in front of the Nescafe dispenser at Kochi airport in 2005, Yuvraj Singh asked me if I wanted a cup of coffee.

Even as 20 fare-free special trains have been started to carry flood victims to safety...

So, get this straight. Doodling in office, with an obese (always obese), obnoxious boss breathing down your neck, makes you a loser.

Iran is now operating 4,000 centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant, a top official said on Friday, moving the country's controversial nuclear programme...

Uttarakhand may be conducive to industry on account of its tax regime.

Expressing serious concern over the state-run mineral giant National Mineral Development Corporation...

When Zaheer Khan dismissed Kumar Sangakkara in the second one-dayer...

Kosi barrage, the borderline between India and Nepal, may have lost its relevance by no longer being the custodian of 20 lakh cusecs of water...

A week before the crucial meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers' Group to consider a revised draft allowing international nuclear commerce with India...

More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes...

Fannie Mae's workers had $116 million in the employee stock ownership plan at the end of 2006.

The ordinary turnout was understandable. But while there may not have been a lot left in the series, there was a lot of 'left' on display in this fifth and final ODI.

Global slowdown has hardly dampened the commercial spending by Indian business establishments and government...

Shahbaz Hussain, the first suspect to be arrested in connection with the Jaipur blasts probe...

The likely confrontation over the demand for an alternative to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee to manage Sikh shrines in Haryana...

For the Dalal Street bulls, slower-than-expected GDP growth in the first quarter and softening of inflation were music to the ears.

A former police informer, known as 'police cat' in Punjab, Nihang chief Ajit Singh Poolha...

The Cabinet on Friday cleared 11 amendments to the Airport Economic Regulatory Authority...

When the 79th meeting of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Board of Governors quietly decided to change the logo of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan...

A week after his government signed a "suspension of operations" agreement with some prominent insurgent groups...

On Friday, as Chief Minister Narendra Modi left for New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and underline the need to have a legislation to curb terrorist activities...

In A major relief for Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef, the Australian police dropped its probe against him...

When megastar Chiranjeevi launched his party on Tuesday at Tirupati, he was alone on the stage. Unlike other political party programmes...Chiranjeevi's men

In a rare instance, the Supreme Court, at one go, referred as many as 14 distinct cases "involving questions of law...

After wavering for a while, the Tamil Nadu Government finally decided to strongly oppose the early release petition filed by S Nalini...

With the para-military forces forced to divert its troops from the counter-insurgency grid to control the deteriorating law...

The Election Commission says the logistics for the next Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be in place "very soon".

Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the United Nations General Assembly in the third week of September...

Close on the heels of detailed discussions between the heads of their respective border police forces...

Six CRPF personnel were killed on Friday when their vehicle blew up in a landmine blast near Cheribeda village on the Kondagaon-Narayanpur highway...

In a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi reiterated that stringent laws like POTA...

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Friday issued contempt notices to a mother-daughter duo...

The Niketa Mehta case has forced the Union Health Ministry to mull changes in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.

BJP leader L K Advani has taken up with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh "the delay" over the announcement on the Amarnath package...

Even as the state is getting ready for Assembly polls, the staff involved in preparing photo identity cards has been airlifted to the anti-Naxal...

Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren won the trust vote on Friday.

The Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid in Delhi, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, has called for an independent judicial inquiry into the arrest of many...

In a strategic move to engage all South East Asian nations, India has decided to deepen defence ties with Laos...

Warning various companies engaged in construction of dam projects in the state to perform or perish...

When the swirling waters of the Kosi gushed into Bishanpur village in the worst-affected Supaul district on August 19...