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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat Sunday criticised the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena for fuelling a language row by insisting on speaking only in Marathi even in the legislature.

New Delhi, Nov 23 : The government should have published the Justice Liberhan Commission report probing the Babri issue the day it was submitted, BJP leader L K Advani said at the Parliament on Monday.

Canada's top Mountie says he expects the coming report on the deadly 1985 Air India bombing to be highly critical of the RCMP.

Just married: Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty and London-based businessman Raj Kundra posing for the media after their marriage ceremony in Khandala near Mumbai on Sunday.

By P. Vijian NEW DELHI, Nov 22 -- In a major crackdown across the globe, Interpol has uncovered 751 websites engaged in illegal online pharmacies selling dangerous and illegal drugs.

NEW DELHI: An inquiry has revealed that the Indian Consulate in Chicago was guilty of a major security lapse while issuing visas to Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani- Canadian arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting terror strikes in India, and his wife.

Suspected militants set off two bombs outside a police station in India's restive northeast on Sunday, killing seven people and wounding more than 50, police said.

Don't spare the masterminds: Journalists stage a protest at Mumbai's Hutatma Chowk on Saturday against the attack on IBN offices in Mumbai and Pune by Shiv Sainiks.

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said at a function that "locals must be given importance.

The walls that the rockets blew out have not been repaired, and the plaster is a dense scattershot of bullet holes.

INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday left for the United States with talks on terrorism and the global economy expected to dominate the agenda.

Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities said.

Collector Gopalakrishna Dwivedi looking at crops damaged by the recent spell of rain at Ramachandrapuram on Friday.

Members of a Hindu hard-line political party on Friday ransacked the offices of an Indian television news channel in the western Indian city of Mumbai, using iron rods and baseball bats to beat employees and smash furniture.

Maoist rebels in India have blown up a railway track, leading to the derailment of a passenger train in the eastern state of Jharkhand, police say.

Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, who heads the moderate faction of Jammu and Kashmir's separatist Hurriyat Conference, plans to visit Beijing after Eid on Nov 28 on an invitation from an NGO.

The protest, which was backed by opposition parties and unions, led the government yesterday to discuss a compromise with the protesters, a sign of how difficult it may prove to reform heavily-regulated sectors such as sugar and insurance.

Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police.

It's the hottest ticket in town. Just don't ask the White House who got them. The White House is saying very little about next week's state dinner with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the first for President Barack Obama.

An Indian card player was killed after an argument over winnings of just 6p. The 29-year-old rickshaw puller known only as Aslam was playing cards with his friends Dharambir, 26, and Ajay, 22, in the Sunder Nagri area of New Delhi when the fight which led to his death broke out.