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Fiona Mackeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, was issued summons to depose before the investigating agencies by Goa police.

IIT Mumbai announced the launch of a mega global initiative to "discover 10 great ideas to change the world in the next 50 years".

Asserting once again that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had failed to perform on the economic front, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee on Friday said he stuck to his view.

Eminent painter M F Husain, at the centre of controversy over his nudist paintings, refused to say whether he would end his self-imposed exile after a relief from the Delhi High Court but voiced his apprehension over three more cases pending against him.

A keen contest is on the cards between the Congress, BJP and JDS in the first phase of the assembly elections in Karnataka on Saturday, in which 89 assembly constituencies, spread over 11 districts, will go to the polls.

Lashing out at West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for his self-imposed power cuts at the Raj Bhavan, CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu on Friday said his action was not in consonance with the dignity of the post and that he was "acting like a child".

Extending greetings to new Russian President Dimitri Medvedev, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited him to visit India, a proposal which has been accepted.

India will soon float global tenders to acquire six submarines but would like to see indigenous development of this technology in the future, Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said in Mumbai on Friday.

The border observation post of BSF in Sambha sector of Jammu region came under heavy firing late Thursday from the Pakistani side with initial reports suggesting that militants wanted to infiltrate into Jammu region.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi is not "invincible" in her Rae Bareli constituency, senior BJP leader and former union minister Sumitra Mahajan claimed on Thursday.

Delivering the 13th annual Prem Bhatia Memorial Lecture on Thursday, former finance minister of West Bengal and eminent economist Ashok Mitra talked about anomalies that persist in India's economic growth.

The Indian Railways has bagged a $1 billion contract to construct a 103-km electrified high-speed double line in Malaysia, even as it drags its feet on a similar project planned along the Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar route.

The export of perishable products like fruits and vegetables has suffered in the last few years, mainly because of the time involved in getting clearance from multiple agencies and documentations required for the process.

A week after the Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues undertook a fast to protest against alleged discrimination by the Centre, the Congress has decided to take to the streets on the issue of corruption in Madhya Pradesh.

While JD(U) president Sharad Yadav registered his opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha on May 6, another NDA partner, Shiv Sena, has now vowed to oppose the Bill in its present form.

Raj Thackeray's pro-Marathi campaign is not expected to hurt the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra in a big way and any minor gains he might make would be offset by the possibility of the BSP eating into the base of the Congress-NCP alliance, BJP leader Gopinath Munde said on Thursday.

Drawing lessons from the BSP, the BJP has shifted gears a year before the term of the present Government ends and sent out express instructions to all its state units to send in their panel of nominations for next Lok Sabha elections by May 31. States going to polls in November have, however, been left out as the party wants to wait for their results first.

Taking a cue from Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday decided to enforce a power cut in her Kalighat house as well as the party's headquarters in Topsia from Friday.

After eluding the police for over 20 years, Bhangar Yadav, crime lord of areas bordering Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, surrendered before the police on Thursday at Patarkhi village in West Champaran district of north Bihar.