A new cyprinid fish, Puntius Dolichopterus has been discovered in Kerala's Kayamkulam city, a media report said. ...
Rescuers on Sunday frantically searched for a nine-year-old girl, who is suspected to be trapped in the debris of a house that collapsed here overnight, while the toll rose to five....
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned "in the strongest terms" a bomb attack on a market in Baghdad that killed over 100 people, media reported....

Delhi Chief Minster Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday sought a report from Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi after a 19-year-old girl was stabbed to death, and hit out at the Narendra Modi government over the "deteriorating" law and order situation in the capital....
The protest of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) students has crossed 35 days now but is not only targeted at chairperson Gajendra Chauhan for "lack of qualifications" but against other crucial appointments too, says director Dibakar Banerjee....
Opposition parties are bracing up to put the government on the mat on a range of issues including the Vayapam scam, controversy surrounding Lalit Modi and the land bill in the monsoon session of parliament beginning Tuesday....
The Congress on Saturday accused the Narendra Modi government of attempting to "break the connect" in use of internet messaging services such as WhatsApp and Viber, and alleged that this was being done to "favour a few corporates"....
Four students and a volleyball coach, all hailing from Thiruvananthapuram district, went missing from Kovalam beach on Saturday, police said....

Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) patron Ashok Singhal on Saturday said India will become a Hindu nation by 2020 and the entire world would be Hindu by 2030. ...

Muslims across India on Saturday celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Tight security arrangements were made at many places to ensure that the festival passed off peacefully, but protests broke out in Jammu and Kashmir in which a few people were injured....