Assam flood hits 40 more villages, erodes 60 houses

Flood waters today engulfed 22 villages in Assam's Bongaingaon and eroded 60 houses in Morigaon district displacing scores of people as the Bramhaputra river continued to flow above the danger......

'Trust levels between India and China are low'

As part of our special series on the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India, Dr Srikanth Kondapalli, Associate Professor in Chinese Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and also an......

Several long distance trains cancelled

Rains continued to lash Maharashtra on Thursday, affecting rail and road services, even as a teenager was killed and a woman injured in separate rain-related incidents in the city.Rail services......

Ladhowal second major train tragedy this year

The fire in the three coaches of the Fronier Mail in the early hours of Thursday in Punjab's Ludhiana district, in which at least 38 killed and over 13 injured, was the second major train tragedy......

The finance minister's progress report

The mainstay of Finance Minister Jaswant Singh's Budget for 2003-04 was a Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion) infrastructure spending plan aimed at stimulating industrial recovery.Singh had said......