Four young athletes on Wednesday had consumed a poisonous fruit on being reprimanded for consuming beer and one of them, Aparna, passed away early Thursday....
Hours after reports of around 500 people being held "hostage" by Maoists in a Chhattisgarh village surfaced on Saturday, a senior police officer said such reports were a "fiction created by the media". ...

The future lies in peace and not in violence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Saturday, hours after Maoist rebels took some people "hostage" in the state....
The Colombian police have announced that a stolen first-edition copy of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most renowned novel, has been recovered....
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev sparked off a controversy on Saturday by saying lobbying for Padma awards is a known fact and those with political clout get it....

Nothing shows the weakness of the Narendra Modi government more than the fact that it gives the impression of having been spooked by Rahul Gandhi to strive for a pro-poor image....
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that Russia has contributed to India's development, growth and security and has been a "pillar of strength at difficult moments" for his country....
A homeopathic doctor was killed on Saturday when unidentified miscreants opened fire at his clinic in southern Pakistan's Karachi city....
At least 30 people were killed when Iraqi forces foiled a prison break staged by a group of over of 150 detainees held on terrorism charges in Diyala province, a security source said on Saturday. ...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar for backing the India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) that the Indian parliament has passed, an official said here on Saturday. ...