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Even as new strands keep emerging in the probe into what Pakistan-born American David Coleman Headley and Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana were up to in Mumbai, investigators now believe the duo may not have had anything to do with the 26/11 Mumbai terror strike.

Away from some of the more visible projects in Delhi, one of the biggest construction efforts in the country is about four months away from completion.

Mumbai Police have arrested 17 Shiv Sena activists for the attacks on the offices of IBN TV news channels in Mumbai and Pune as journalists staged a protest on Saturday and urged the Chief Minister to bring the guilty to book.

"Ek Bachcha apnaao, desh ko khushhaal banao" is the slogan which the Noble Foundation Trust, an NGO, has adopted to serve underprivileged children.

New Governors for Gujarat, Assam NEW DELHI: In a late evening reshuffle, Tripura Governor Kamala Beniwal was moved to Gujarat, Maharashtra Congressman D Y Patil was appointed Governor of Tripura and former Orissa chief minister J B Patnaik was made the Governor of Assam.

The Centre has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to prepare a fresh feasibility report on the proposed Greenfield Airport in Greater Noida.

Pledging to push for Maharashtra's progress, state Industries Minister Rajendra Darda on Saturday sought support from all parties in the task.

After dilly-dallying for months, Home Minister P Chidambaram read the riot act to Manipur Congress Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh on Saturday and urged him to immediately open a dialogue with civil society groups to ensure that the school and colleges in the state, which have been shut since July, are reopened.

Pranali Kalbhor stands on her toes and peers into the little box outside her father's kirana store.

Writer Shelina Janmohammed on how a quest for love led to her debut book Shelina Zahra Janmohammed is easy to spot.

Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Saturday said "mutual sensitivity" and "active partnership" between India and China was vital for security and stability in the region.

Under a project aimed to help them earn, a group of women offers car spa services at parking lots Thirty-five-year old Lata Devi's workplace is a little unusual—the basement parking lot of a mall—but her work is more unconventional than her workplace.

Started a year ago, a cycle tour gets tourists and residents to know the city better When Jack Leenaars moved to Delhi in 2003 as the south Asia correspondent for the Dutch paper De Telegraaf, one of the things he missed about home was bicycles.

The Information & Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry has asked all news channels to ensure a 'balanced and responsible' coverage of the first anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and desist from replaying any disturbing visuals of the incident.

Indian Communists, especially the CPM, may hold the view that China or any other country has no role to play in resolving the decades-old differences between India and Pakistan, but comrades from Islamabad beg to differ.

After a six-year delay, the third auto cluster in the state after Pune and Nashik has got the green signal with the centre approving Rs 80 crore for the Marathwada Auto Cluster (MAC) in Aurangabad.

The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has brought up a new demand to push Marathi — a Marathi website of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

Over 70 activists, owing allegiance to the Committee for Release of Binayak Sen, on Saturday demonstrated against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that has been in operation in Manipur since 1980. The protest also marked the beginning of the 10th year of Irom Chanu Sharmila's hunger strike demanding the repeal of the Act.

As a student of medicine at Grant Medical College in the early '50s, Om Prakash was notorious among hostel mates for taking longer than usual in the bathroom, singing.