A leading Islamic seminary on Monday opposed Centre’s move to repeal a controversial section of the penal law which criminalises homosexuality saying unnatural sex is against the tenets of Islam. “Homosexuality is an offence under Shariat...

The residents of Guangzhou, one of China’s most affluent cities, are already used to sticking to the country’s strict one-child rule, but a new regulation is about to force many dog owners to make an impossible decision. From next month,...

India’s opening batsman Virender Sehwag has been ruled out of the ongoing ICC Twenty20 World Cup in England due to a shoulder injury. Virender Sehwag Sehwag was advised to undergo a surgery for his shoulder injury, sources said. The hard-hitting...

A 34-year-old woman and her five-year-old son from Tamil Nadu, who returned from the US on May 28, have become India’s latest victims of the deadly H1N1 influenza virus — an infection that has spread to 55 countries, taken 99 lives and infected...

New Delhi (PTI): S M Krishna was made the new External Affairs Minister on Saturday and Mamata Banerjee given Railways in partial allocation of portfolios by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has retained veterans Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram in...

Upbeat over her party’s good showing in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she wants to devote more time to the state assembly elections even as she is yet to take a...

I feel very sorry for BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani. Not because his Party did badly in the elections but because minions within the BJP and people outside it, have started rubbishing him. All through last year I have watched some of my colleagues bend...

Iran celebrated the beginning of its official election campaign period yesterday with the launch of a missile capable of reaching Israeli and American bases in the Gulf. The launch comes two days after Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister,...

MUMBAI: An aggressive young leader, a new enemy and Marathi asmita (pride). The Shiv Sena’s sure-fire formula was lifted in toto by its breakaway element Raj Thackeray in the 15th Lok Sabha elections. Though the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) formed...

The Left parties, unfazed by the hectic consultations between erstwhile opponents, will wait for the election results and decide on their approach at a meeting on Sunday. That meeting will be followed by an interaction with their Third Front allies the...