There seems to be growing tension between India and China. Beijing on Sunday took exception to the detention of United Arab Emirates air force aircraft at Kolkata airport earlier this week.
It called the incident an attempt by Indian officials “to spy on Chinese military secrets” and said India violated diplomatic rights because the cargo onboard [...]

A bronze statue of a seated Buddhist deity presented by Mahatma Gandhi to his Irish friend Emma Harker will go on sale on Tuesday.
The 13-inch-high figure, possibly of the Bodhisattva of compassion Avalokitesvara, is estimated to sell for 3,000-5,000 pounds at Bonhams sale of Asian art.
The sale comes at a time when buyers are showing [...]

YS Rajashekhar Reddy, one of Congress’ most successful Chief Ministers was given a full state funeral in his hometown of Kadapa on Friday.
The party wanted to wait a bit before choosing his successor, but their choices are becoming limited. The MLAs are meeting on Saturday to push YSR’s son Jagan as their choice.
And at YS [...]

It’s every aviator’s nightmare, a fully fuelled Boeing 747 jumbo jet catching fire. That’s exactly what happened to an Air India jetliner on Friday in Mumbai as it was taxiing for take off.
Fortunately, all the passengers were safely evacuated. In fact, the nightmare for these passengers had started much earlier.
First, their original plane had a [...]

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others were killed when his helicopter crash-landed atop the Rudrakonda hill in the Nallamalla range, about 40 nautical miles east of Kurnool.
“I’m formally announcing that the CM is dead,” said Home Minister P Chidambaram. In a formal statement to the media, he expressed “deep regret” [...]

In a first, the RSS held a press conference at LK Advani’s residence where RSS leader Madan Das Devi read a statement saying LK Advani is the senior most leader of the BJP and that the party will emerge stronger from the crisis.
Sources have told NDTV that the succession plan is almost finalised and Advani [...]

Pakistan has now said that India could have avoided the 26/11 terror attacks. Interior Minister Rehman Malik says, before acting on the Interpol notice against Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed, they need to examine the evidence against him.
“Mumbai attacks may have never happened if India shared information with us,” said Malik.
In Pakistan’s first reaction to the [...]

Twenty-two people, most of them security personnel, were killed and over 25 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a check post near the Afghan border in Pakistan’s restive Khyber tribal region on Thursday.
The attacker struck when a large number of personnel from the Khasadar force, a tribal militia, had gathered for ‘iftar’, the meal [...]

Bangalore, Aug 25 (IANS) India Tuesday reported two swine flu deaths with a 44-year-old woman in the national capital and a 28-year-old man in Bangalore succumbing to the H1N1 influenza, taking the total toll to 66.
In New Delhi, Usha Jain, a resident of Faridabad, died at 10.15 a.m. Tuesday, said N.K. Chaturvedi, the medical superintendent [...]

New Delhi, Aug 25 (PTI) In the midst of a row over tainted money stashed in banks in Switzerland, the government today said it will begin talks with that country in December for amending the relevant treaty and it was not interested in a “roving inquiry”.
“We are pursuing with the Swiss authorities and after our [...]

A 12-year-old boy, who suffered 70 per cent burns in Thursday’s school bus fire in Mumbai
, died on Saturday. He was on the ventilator.
Twenty five students of CTK High School in Mumbai’s suburb Panvel were injured on Thursday when the school bus they were traveling in caught fire. There were 40 children onboard the bus.
According [...]

On Tuesday Railway property worth 3.5 crores turned to dust within hours. The reason: About 50 students from rural colleges of Bihar.
They had boarded the New Delhi-Rajgir Shramjeevi Express. Students with passes are allowed to travel in unreserved coaches of long-distance trains.
One student, however, entered an AC coach and refused to budge
He was beaten up [...]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said that there was credible information that terrorist groups based in Pakistan were planning to carry out fresh attacks in India. He advocated the need for utmost vigilance.
“There is credible information of ongoing plans of terrorist groups in Pakistan to carry out fresh attacks,” the Prime Minister said addressing [...]

A school bus with 35 students of Saraswati Shishu Mandir of Sardarpura in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh fell in a gorge on Sunday.
The students were on the way to Mandupur for a picnic.
One 18-year-old student and two teachers died on the spot. Rescue operations have begun and the police have reached the squad.
More details [...]

There was a bomb scare on the Kolkata-bound Indigo Airlines flight number 203 on Wednesday at the Delhi airport.
As the news broke out, the bomb disposal squad was rushed to the airport, and the plane was taken to a remote bay. The airlines has now said that no bomb was found on the flight.
According the [...]

Swine flu continued its surge across the country on Wednesday with 115 fresh cases being reported taking the total number of those afflicted to 1,193.
Pune remained the worst-hit area by the disease with 61 new cases being reported from the city. Mumbai had 24 new cases, Kolkata (3), Bangalore (10), Shillong (1), Goa (1), Delhi [...]

In an article likely to raise Indian hackles, a Chinese strategist contends that Beijing should break up India into 20-30 independent states with the help of “friendly countries” like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.
The publication of the article nearly coincided with the 13th round of India-China border talks that ended in New Delhi
on Saturday on [...]

India’s largest bank, State Bank of India, on Friday said that it was launching a three-month long home loan campaign at attractive interest rates and zero processing fee to facilitate home buyers during the forthcoming festival season.
Christened SBI My Home Campaign, it will be launched tomorrow, a press release issued here said.
The public sector lender [...]