Britain's Food Standards Authority (FSA) on Wednesday announced that Nestle India's Maggi noodles, manufactured in India and exported to Britain, were safe to consume and contained lead well within permissible levels....
The Greek government on Wednesday revealed its latest proposal for a debt deal with creditors to stave off a default and Grexit -- exit from the eurozone -- in the coming weeks even as thousands of pensioners lined up outside 1,000 bank branches opened to disperse pension payments....
The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that a rape accused would not be let off the hook even if he agrees to enter into wedlock with the rape victim, saying that for a woman, her body is her own temple and could not be defiled. ...
Over 1,000 pilgrims of the first batch of this year's annual Amarnath Yatra left Jammu on Wednesday for the high-altitude cave shrine in Kashmir Valley....
India’s child sex-ratio (below six years) is now the worst in 70 years, possibly the worst ever. The latest decline was from 927 (girls per 1,000 boys) in 2001 to 918 in 2011....
The Congress on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his "deafening" silence on the Lalit Modi controversy amid fresh allegations that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's husband was offered a job by the former IPL chief. ...
An Italian woman who converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State (IS) in Syria is at the centre of an operation in Italy and Albania that led to the arrests on Wednesday of 10 of the Sunni radical group's suspected supporters, investigators said....
The Congress on Wednesday dubbed as "reprehensible, cheap and gutter-level tactics" the "mischievous" changes made in Wikipedia pages on late prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his forefathers and pointed fingers at the government....
Under fire for alleged irregularities in awarding contracts for materials worth Rs.206 crore for schoolchildren, Maharashtra's Women and Child Welfare Minister Pankaja Munde on Wednesday denied any scam and said she was prepared for any inquiry....
A Danish woman, allegedly gangraped by six vagabonds last year, appeared before a court here on Wednesday and identified all the accused in the case....
