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Security has been beefed up in and around important places across the city in the run up to Independence Day, while additional armed forces have been posted at public places where footfalls are generally high, police said on Tuesday.

President Pranab Mukherjee will address the country on Wednesday, following the eve of the 67th Independence Day.

Dhaka: Members of Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday exploded crude bombs and clashed with the police, leaving at least 40 people injured, as they tried to enforce a 48-hour countrywide shutdown.

Two members of a family were killed in a landslide in the wee hours of Tuesday and a large stretch of land was swept away as intermittent rains continued to lash most parts of Uttarakhand.

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Vivek feels Aftab may remain a bachelor as any girl would shy away from marrying him after watching 'Grand Masti'.

Two persons were killed when an auto rickshaw was hit by a car in Bhopal, police said on Tuesday. The mishap occurred on Sunday night when Babu Khan (45) was driving a passenger in his auto rickshaw.

The Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon on Tuesday following protests over the riots in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar town and the BJP members raising the purportedly illegal land deals of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra.

The court refused to interfere on lifting the ban on SMSes and blackout of local cable network following the violence in Kishtwar.

Normal life came to a grinding halt in Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions of Andhra Pradesh as over four lakh government employees began an indefinite strike to demand the Centre to take back its decision to carve out a separate Telangana state.

Sonakshi Sinha is a a long-time supporter of PETA India. Since her college days, she has been rescuing animals.

Ahead of Independence Day and in the wake of an intelligence alert, Delhi has been put on high alert with heavy security arrangements and police barriers across the city.

Gunmen have killed at least 30 people in an attack in a farming region in northeast Nigeria where the Islamist sect Boko Haram is active, a military source and residents said on Monday.

Activists working to promote Right to Information (RTI) Act on Monday said they will move court if Parliament gives its nod to amendments in the transparency law aimed at providing immunity to political parties from providing information. A bill was intro...

Raghavji was arrested from a flat in Bhopal on July 9 after his servant alleged that he was sodomised by the minister for nearly three-and-a-half years.