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Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that there is no reason for the government not to encourage the use of Hindi in official work.

The use of a drone would mark a step up in the sophistication of the Palestinian arsenal, although it was not immediately clear whether it was armed.

The train will depart daily from New Delhi at 5:30 PM to arrive at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra at 5:10 AM the next day.

The decision in this regard is understood to have been taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security headed by the Prime Minister recently, sources said.

Three members of an Indian-American family died when their car was hit by a car driven by a possibly drunk woman.

A spokeswoman for the agency that operates Newark Liberty International Airport says no one on board Air India Flight 144 was injured.

A 25-point agenda was suggested by me and I am happy to say that all the states have agreed to it," Venkaiah Naidu said.

The Bihar Police on Sunday arrested a suspected Maoist from Bardiha forest area of Jamui district in a joint operation with CRPF's Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) unit.

The Narendra Modi government wants to do extraordinary work in the health sector, union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday.

The Indian Air Force on Sunday scrambled fighter planes from air base here after two commercial passenger aircraft sought to enter Indian territory from Pakistan side using similar identification codes, sparking a security alert.

"The Security Council members called for de-escalation of the situation, restoration of calm, and reinstitution of the November 2012 ceasefire," the 15-member body said in a statement.

The deadliest attacks happened overnight in Afghanistan's eastern Laghman province.

Joe Monteith, the father of 'Glee' star Cory Monteith, has described his son as "a likeable young man".

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian feels pregnant women should stay indoors as much as possible.

Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker has chosen Pooja Hegde to play the female lead in his Indus Valley civilisation-set love story 'Mohenja Daro'.

Heavy smartphone use is driving more and more people towards behavioural addictions like gaming, social networking, pornography and sex, say experts.