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Muslims hold a protest in Bhopal on Friday against the Delhi High Court judgment decriminalising homosexuality.

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his Japanese counterpart, Hirofumi Nakasone, at a joint press announcement in Tokyo on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh government on Friday gave the green signal for filing of chargesheet in a court against BJP MP Varun Gandhi for making allegedly inflammatory speeches in Pilibhit, moving a step closer to his trial in the case.

NEW DELHI: Employees of national carrier Air India went on a two-hour strike at airports across the country from 1 p.m. in protest against the delay in salary payments despite a warning from the management that this would entail a pay cut.

NEW DELHI: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee began presenting her ministry's budget for the current fiscal shortly after noon Friday with the promise of addressing the concerns of average passengers.

A police officer stands guard next to the wreckage of a bus that was blown up Thursday by a suspected suicide bomber riding a motorcycle in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

India News: In a historic judgement, the Delhi High Court Thursday decriminalised homosexuality by striking down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code .

The Treasury Department on Wednesday took action against four Pakistani men suspected of providing support to terror groups in the country.

An employee fills a customer's tank at a petrol pump in Kolkata NIdhi Verma NEW DELHI: The government unexpectedly raised gasoline and diesel prices by as much as 10 percent on Wednesday, its first increase this year, passing some of oil's rally into an economy just beginning to find its feet amid a global recession.

You don't scare me A Kashmiri woman argues with Indian police officers during a protest in the summer capital of Indian-held Kashmir.

Launching the NSG hubs, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said intelligence agencies have indicated a terror threat to the country's west coast but it did not mean that there will be an imminent attack.

NEW DELHI: Nirupama Rao, India's ambassador to China, will be its next foreign secretary, the government said on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: Chief Justice India K G Balakrishanan has strongly reacted to the sensational disclosure by Justice R Regupathi of the Madras High Court that a Union minister had called him to influence him to grant anticipatory bail to the accused in a forgery case.

It is easier to start and operate business in India than it was three years ago in many large cities of the country, a report by IFC and World bank says.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi today declared open the country's first sea bridge that links Mumbai's western suburbs of Bandra and Worli.

June 30, 2009 Visionmp.com news service In what can be seen as a lack of consensus between Pakistani leaders on ties with India, the Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that President Asif Ali Zardaria s statement a India is no more a threat for Pakistana was blown out of proportion.

New Delhi Seventeen years after it was set up, the Liberhan Commission probing the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on Tuesday submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Suspected militants used automatic weapons and machetes to kill a family of four migrant workers Tuesday in India's insurgency-hit northeast.

Pakistani fighter jets bombed suspected Taliban hideouts on Monday and a stray mortar crashed into a mosque during prayers as violence in the volatile northwest claimed more than 20 lives.

AT LEAST 35 people including eight children were killed after they were struck by lightning in the adjoining eastern Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand, officials said on Monday.