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A couple were arrested on Wednesday with 10 kg of illegal opium near Chothkeha Fanta area.

At least 60 Congress workers were reportedly injured when police resorted to mild lathi-charge while they were trying to march to the state Assembly from the party office at Jawahar Bhawan, a party official said.

Lawyers in Kanpur on Wednesday extended their support to the doctors' stir by going on a day-long strike.

The BCCI disciplinary committee has given former Rajasthan Royals off-spinner Ajit Chandila time till March 12 to submit his written reply after the Board's Anti-Corruption Unit chief Ravi Sawani has found him guilty of spot-fixing during last year's IPL.

Kareena Kapoor has accompanied husband Saif Ali Khan on the sets of his upcoming film 'Humshakals' in Mauritius.

Woods's status for this week's WGC-Cadillac Championship remained uncertain as the reigning champion continued to receive treatment for a sore back.

An official of a construction company working for the Indian Railways, who was kidnapped by unknown armed men in this Naxal-affected district last month, was rescued unharmed on Tuesday, police said.

The BJP has called a day-long state-wide economic blockade on Friday to press for the demand of special status to Jharkhand.

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday sanctioned a sum of Rs 200 crore to compensate farmers who suffered losses in recent rainfalls and hailstorms in several places of the state.

Jharkhand assembly speaker Shashank Shekhar Bhokta has been accorded Z category security and the legislators of the state have been kept above the chief secretary in protocol, it was announced on Tuesday.

Laxmi, a "Stop Acid Attacks" campaigner from India is one of the ten extraordinary women from 10 countries.

US President Barack Obama has said Russia was on the "wrong side of history" and its invasion in Ukraine was an attack on sovereignty of a nation, warning that he was considering economic and diplomatic options to punish Moscow if it didn't reverse course...

During the model code of conduct, no policy decision can be taken by the union government and states.

The RTI centre was set up by the Durbar Mahila Samanway Committee (DMSC), a sex workers' collective which also took out a rally in the city.

The three-time Grand Slam champion from America joined the enshrinement class on Monday.

The Defence Ministry has put on hold all existing and future deals with Rolls Royce pending a CBI probe ordered into allegations of bribery and engaging middlemen in contracts worth Rs 10,000 crore for supply of aircraft engines to state-owned HAL.