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Anant Kumar, a Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman, announced late Saturday Narendra Modi's nomination from the city of Varanasi in northern Uttar Pradesh state, India's most populated state, with nearly 200 million people.

The international hunt has now switched to focus on two flight corridors - as India suspends its search around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and operations in the South China Sea are called off.

Strobe Talbott's tweet that hijackers may have wanted to use the missing Malaysian flight to attack Indian cities should be seen in the context of Lashkar-e-Tayiba's long standing plans to attack Indian cities like Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai from the skies.

Wising you could help out with the search for the Malaysia Aircraft that mysteriously went missing over the weekend? Well, here's on way to do it from your desk.

Indian navy ships supported by long-range surveillance planes and helicopters scoured Andaman Sea islands for a third day on Saturday without any success in finding evidence of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, officials said.

Amid the void of information on their fates, it seems at times the passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have been reduced to a number.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Searchers zeroed in Friday on a remote island chain in the Indian Ocean for a missing jet that may have flown for hours after it vanished.

The hanging of two of the four men convicted for raping and murdering a woman in New Delhi in late 2012 has been stayed, according to a ruling by India's high court issued today.

Kerala University physics graduate Arun Madhavan Kumar was confirmed to be assistant secretary of commerce and director general of the US and Foreign Commercial Service by a voice vote Wednesday along with Puneet Talwar, a longtime White House national security staffer.

The winning numbers have been drawn in the Mega Millions lottery game, with the jackpot at an estimated $353 million.

SRINAGAR : Indian government forces shot and killed a teenage Kashmiri boy and wounded two others as hundreds of rock-throwing protesters threatened to attack their armoured vehicle in the Indian-held Kashmir, reported a private TV channel on Friday.

Sialkot- The local villagers caught accused rapist Ibrar Ahmed while raping a 3years old child in village Bhaaganiyaan-Badiana, Pasrur tehsil.

A Pakistani teenager died Friday after setting herself on fire after a court dropped charges against four men accused of raping her, police said.

Indian aircraft combed Andaman and Nicobar, made up of more than 500 mostly uninhabited islands, for signs of a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner that evidence suggests was last headed towards the heavily forested archipelago.

Supreme court passed the order on a PIL filed by advocate M L Sharma seeking action against the company for allegedly supplying sub standard and adulterated drugs.

An old, seven-story residential building collapsed Friday in a Mumbai suburb and up to 10 people may be trapped under the debris, Indian officials said.

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has expanded into the Indian Ocean as investigators focus on the theory that the jet may have flown well beyond the current search areas and possibly even for several hours after losing contact with airport authorities.

New Delhi: At a time when the United States and India are trying to move beyond a rift over an Indian diplomat's arrest in a domestic worker case, news that charges against her had been dropped - for now - was greeted with a mix of scepticism and relief.

A FICKLE lot, revolutionaries. Three years ago Anna Hazare, an ageing Gandhian populist, drew immense crowds to Ramlila Maidan, a big park in Old Delhi.

Devotees of a dead guru in India have told the BBC they put his body in a freezer to preserve him as they believe he will return to life to lead them.