At least 125 people have been killed in a stampede at a Hindu temple in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. The temple is located in a fort overlooking the historic city of Jodhpur.

JODHPUR, Sept 30 – Nearly 150 people were crushed to death and 55 others injured in a stampede early this morning caused by a rush of devotees in the Chamunda Devi temple in the 15th century Mehrangarh Fort on a hillock here on the first day of Navaratri festival, reports PTI. In a virtual repeat [...]

The US House of Representatives has voted in favour of a landmark nuclear deal between India and the US.

Coronary artery disease (CAD) or heart attack is the biggest killer today, and significantly, India accounts for the maximum CAD cases in the world. According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) estimation, 60 per cent of the world’s heart patients will be Indians by 2010. Another disturbing trend is that of all the heart patients [...]

WASHINGTON, Sept 28 – The Indo-US nuclear deal has moved into the last lap clearing a major hurdle when the House of Representatives approved a legislation on it that will now go to the Senate which is likely to vote on it tomorrow, reports PTI. Once the Senate clears the bill, the agreement reached between [...]

Escalating security concerns in wake of the serial blasts, coupled with tubrulent markets, is set to take a toll on this year’s Navratri celebrations in New Delhi.
Navratri is one of the biggest dance festivals celebrated in the state where people throng in huge numbers and play ‘Garba’ — a traditional form of dance — for [...]

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while shooting an action sequence for a film near an island in Thailand.
The scene required him and four other stunt men to play out a jet-ski chase in the sea.This was being shot by a camera on the chopper to get an aereal view of the chase.
While Devgan and his men were [...]

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan made a surprise appearance in reality TV show Bigg Boss 2 and interacted with the participants at length. The star looked quite like a pied piper, with the inmates of the house where the show requires them to stay following him everywhere he went.
Abhishek appeared on Friday’s episode with his [...]

Pop superstar Madonna is being fined 135,000 pounds (nearly $250,000) by the Wembley Stadium for starting and staying on beyond the venue’s time limit during a performance there.
Madonna went beyond the stadium’s strict 10.30 pm curfew by 40 minutes September 11, reports said. She has been charged 50,000 pounds for every 15 minutes she was [...]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had a memorable 76th birthday as a group of eminent Indian-Americans gathered at his hotel to greet him and assured him they will not let him return to India without the trailblazing nuclear initiative in his bag.
With the House of Representatives passionately debating the approval of the India-US nuclear accord in [...]

Captain Ricky Ponting (5) continued to come a cropper in India as Australia floundered against Rajasthan Cricket Association’s Centre of Excellence team in a two-day practice match, folding up for 218 on the first day.
Home team left-arm spinner Gajendra Singh was the wrecker-in-chief returning with five for 58 including the prized scalps of Ponting, who [...]

The blast in Mehrauli area of south Delhi comes exactly two weeks after a series of bombs went off in the Capital, following which Delhi was on high alert.
However, the explosive was very different from what was used in the earlier blasts.
The bomb that went off on Saturday had Ammonium Nitrate and Potassium Chlorate while [...]

The Film Federation of India jury has chosen Aamir Khan’s directorial debut venture ‘Taare Zameen Par’ to represent India at the 81st Annual Academy Awards (to be held in Feb) in the foreign language film category. Lagaan missed narrowly in 2001.
When Aamir’s home banner venture, TAARE ZAMEEN PAR (working title) commenced, it was Amol Gupte [...]

The overall flood situation in Bihar showed signs of further improvement on Thursday with almost all the major rivers, including the Ganga and Kosi, maintaining a receding trend, Additional Secretary Disaster Management Pratayaya Amrit said in New Delhi.
The situation in the five worst hit northeastern districts — Saharsa, Supaul, Madhepura, Araria and Purnia –improved further [...]

The September 11 attacks (often referred to as nine-eleven, written 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, nineteen Islamic terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers [...]