India

Actor Idris Elba has shot down reports that he will replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond.

Union Minister Jitin Prasada on Saturday ridiculed the Samajwadi Party for inducting the close kin of scam-tainted former BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha into the party fold, saying that the outfit had displayed "double standards" by the move.

The Agra Development Authority has drawn up a plan for the construction of an underground two-storeyed parking and garden above it near the eastern gate of the Taj Mahal, a senior official said on Saturday.

Randhir Kapoor plays a key role in Prabhudeva's family drama 'Ramaiya Vastavaiya'.

NTSB said an intern mistakenly confirmed offensive names as those of the pilots of Asiana flight 214.

Investors will be scrutinising second-quarter results to see whether there's enough cash to stay with a turnaround plan which Elop said would take two years but is now into its third.

Ailing 94-year-old former South African president Nelson Mandela "continues to respond positively to treatment", his wife Graca Michel has said.

Uttar Pradesh government on Friday handed over the investigations into the death of a medical student in a Moradabad university to CB-CID of the state police.

The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the central government, Delhi University on a PIL alleging that practice and procedure followed by School of Open Learning (SOL) is very "arbitrary and discriminatory".

Chhattisgarh government has so far disbursed crop loan amounting to Rs 1,300 crore, as against the total loan target of estimated Rs 3,000 crore in this year's Kharif-Rabi season.

With the Supreme Court prohibiting jailed MPs, MLAs and MLCs from contesting elections, JD(U) president Sharad Yadav on Friday said things which should have been enacted by Parliament is being done by court which reflects the "weakening" of democracy.

NDMA cited challenges like inclement weather have been delaying the clearing of debris.

The Japanese automaker is preparing for a return to Formula One in 2015 as an engine supplier to McLaren.

The UK newspaper said Microsoft worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the NSA to ease access via Pri

About 200 prisoners escaped from a maximum security prison in Indonesia's fourth-largest city, Medan, late on Thursday after a protest over a lack of water and electricity turned violent, a police spokesman said.

Terming party MLA Choudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi as "a traitor", Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kantilal Bhuria on Thursday expelled him for six years. Chaturvedi, deputy leader of Madhya Pradesh Congress legislature party (CLP), had announced earlier t...