17 Jan, 2010, Kolkota, India
Jyoti Basu, the former CM of west Bengal who strode the political landscape of nation like a colossus passed away on Sunday afternoon in Kolkata hospital. Basu had missed to be the prime minister in year 1996 due to the CPM’s ideological rigidity that was in charge of West [...]

9 Jan, 2010, Punjab, India
In a repeat of lobbing rockets incident in Punjab’s border villages recently, around six rockets were lobbed from Pakistani side in the fields near the villages around the Atari sector that is close to India-Pakistan border on Saturday.
The two rockets landed in Border Security Force post (Khangarh), about two kilometers from [...]

6 Jan, 2010, Pakistan
Three soldiers have been killed and about 11 have been injured in a suicide bombing outside the army barracks in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. No group has claimed this attack that has occurred in Tarakhal, near the town of Rawalakot, close to the line of control (LOC) with Indian-administered Kashmir.
Kashmir is disputed [...]

5 Jan, 2010, New Delhi, India
An all-party meeting called by the Centre for discussing statehood for Telangana ended without taking any decision on an issue. The Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who chaired the meeting, went to meet the Prime Minister and apprise him with the outcome soon after the meeting ended in New [...]

3 Jan, 2010, New Delhi, India
The United States administration will introduce a bill in the Senate and the Congress to remove the federal cap on the intake of medical students, according to the Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), a body of physicians of Indian-origin in India. This would benefit international students, including [...]

29 Dec, 2009, Mumbai, India
A fire broke out today in the Chemistry lab at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) that is located just a km away from the nuclear reactors leaving two persons dead but the scientists said that there was no danger of any sort of radioactivity.
The Scientists at suburban Trombay-based BARC [...]

29 Dec, 2009, Tokyo, Japan
India and Japan decided to ease the visa rules within a year to spur trade and tourism as two of the Asia’s biggest economies agreed to conclude a key economic pact very soon. The issue of hassle-free visas and intensification of economic ties figured prominently in all the discussions between [...]

17 Dec 2009, Hyderabad, India

The South Indian film star, Chiranjeevi resigned from the Andhra Pradesh assembly so as to protest against the moves to create the new state of Telangana. Chiranjeevi has starred in around 100 films before he started his own political party, Praja Rajyam Party. Chiranjeevi with his 15 party legislators [...]