A young girl athlete died and three others were in a serious condition after they consumed poisonous fruit here, police said on Thursday. ...
At least 11 people were killed and seven injured in an explosion at a firecracker factory in West Bengal, police said on Thursday....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to clinch a deal with the nationalist Jewish Home party on Wednesday night, securing a new ruling coalition with a tiny majority in the 120-member parliament....

Violence broke out in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday after a girl eloped with a boy from a different community, officials said....
Though he made his acting debut as a supporting actor in the 1988 film "Biwi Ho To Aisi", it was his charming boyish looks in the 1989 film "Maine Pyar Kiya" that helped catapult him to fame at the age of 25, and give him a strong female fan base....
Police in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur town forcibly shifted Telugu actor Sivaji to hospital on Wednesday as his condition deteriorated on the fourth day of his indefinite hunger strike to demand special category status to the state....
Union minister Babul Supriyo on Wednesday came down heavily on Bollywood singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya for his comments criticising people sleeping on roads, in the wake of superstar Salman Khan getting a five-year jail term for the 2002 hit-and-run case....
Britain's Conservative and Labour parties are neck-and-neck, according to the voting pattern forecasted on Wednesday, one day before the general elections, Efe news agency reported....

The verdict is out -- Salman Khan was on Wednesday sentenced to five years in jail for a 2002 hit-and-run accident. And that leaves a pall of uncertainty over the fate of his film projects worth a whopping Rs.200 crore. But industry experts say there's no cause to worry....

Terming the government as "anti-farmer" and "arrogant", Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday accused it of bringing "achche din (good days) only for crony capitalists" and promised to take the party's fight to the people....