Polling was held on Sunday for 59 Lok Sabha seats in the sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha polls. Elections are being held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 seats in Haryana, eights constituencies each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, seven seats in Delhi and four in Jharkhand. Take a look at the famous faces who exercised their democratic right.
Former international athlete and SAF Games medallist Rajinder Singh has been arrested on charges of killing a man in Jamshedpur.
India's chief hockey coach Gerhard Rach is confident of his young team putting up a good show in the four-Test series.
She was accused of leaving the site of accident without bothering about the victims.
Ranbaxy Laboratories has decided to separate the two areas of research and development - drug discovery and generics/NDDS/drug development - to achieve increased focus and rigour for success.
'The feeling that we were Olympic champions only dawned on us when we reached India.'
Four men from Long Island and one from Queens were arrested in August 2004 and indicted on charges of second-degree assault, second-degree assault as a hate crime, and second-degree harassment in connection with the attack.
Teams of National Disaster Response Force were trying to find out any person still trapped under the debris, officials said.
In a crucial victory for Birlas in their legal battle against Rajendra S Lodha for control of the M P Birla group, Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking quashing of criminal proceedings against him and three others.
The mercurial forward and Baljit Singh Dhillon are among nine players named for a pre-Olympic camp in Cologne from May 27 to June 21.
National hockey coach Rajinder Singh said it was too early to say whether the penalty corner expert would be picked in the Olympics team.
The two ace forwards, in the cold since the Athens Games, are in the list of 35 players short-listed for the Azlan Shah hockey tournament.
'My target is not just to qualify for the Olympics but also do well at Athens and end up in a good position,' says Indian hockey Chief Coach Rajinder Singh.
Indrani dressed in a short purple kurta and leggings, with a bandhini green-purple chunni, sindhoor glowing in her mang, was receiving a drubbing from her lawyers for the facts she had revealed before the court on Tuesday while arguing the rejoinder to her bail application. She was insisting: "But he asked me for a motive!"
Pakistan's Border Action Team set up the ambush and waited for long for the patrol team, while Pakistani troops attacked two forward posts with rockets and mortar bombs along the Line of Control in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Former India hockey captain and coach Vasudevan Bhaskaran calls for more transparency in the IHF's functioning.
Capping days of frenetic confabulations and suspense, 136 ministers, mostly belonging to the Congress in over half a dozen states, were today shown the door on the last day of government downsizing exercise to meet the Constitutional requirement
Wearing multiple identities of religious preacher, science student and terror accused, the saffron robed Aseemanand, once known as the most wanted man in India, was the alleged link between the series of three bombings that ripped through India in 2007.
Rajendra Kumar, Principal Secretary to Delhi CM Kejriwal, who was taken in by the CBI on Tuesday, left the investigation agency's headquarters around 10.30 pm on Tuesday night.
The identities and affiliation of the terrorists were yet to be known. Arms and ammunition had been recovered from the site.
The ace defender has been appointed skipper for the upcoming three-Test series against Holland in Hyderabad.
Neeraj is currently ranked fourth in the new rankings of the international federation.
The IHF chief said the Indian team is shaping well ahead of the Olympics.
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US, Sikhs have been at the receiving end of several attacks and verbal abuses as they are mistaken for Muslims because of their beard and turban.
India coach Rajinder Singh believes the Asian style of attacking hockey will be the key to success.
A development side, led by Neha Singh, will be looking for "valuable exposure" when it locks horns with teams like China, South Korea and Japan in a four-nation tournament.
This was the third BAT action in Poonch this year.
A rebel by nature, he lived the life to the fullest, donning different hats -- lawyer, parliamentarian, minister -- but was not a quintessential politician constrained by party lines.
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