Congress leader Salman Khursheed will be taking charge as the country's new Union Law Minister on Wednesday. His first order of business will be the Solicitor General issue.

India notched another milestone in its space programme Friday evening when it successfully launched a heavy-duty rocket that placed a major communications satellite in space.

Rebekah Brooks, the embattled chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British operations, quit on Friday, after days of mounting pressure over the phone-hacking scandal involving the group's once best selling tabloid News of the World.

Karunanidhi questions limiting land grabbing probe to DMK regime

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Government to consider an application by the mother of a life convict in the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case seeking ten days parole for him for settling some family property issues.

The new Chennai city police commissionerate in Vepery, being constructed at a cost of . 21 crore, will be inaugurated by Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa in the first week of October.

Finance Ministry Friday said the government will take a decision on seeking review of the Supreme Court order constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT), in the next two-three days.

England Test captain Andrew Strauss warmed up for next week's first Test against India by scoring a quick-fire 78 as Somerset reached 329-2 against the tourists at Taunton on Friday.

Carbon nanotubes can be used to store solar energy, and be recharged by exposure to the sun, according to a new research.

Vikram's Deiva Thirumagal, as reported earlier, is inspired by Hollywood movie I am Sam. Though, AL Vijay repeatedly said that the story is not lifted from the English movie,

Karataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Friday claimed that mid-term polls to Lok Sabha were round the corner in the wake of UPA-led government at the centre being seeped in various scams.

A day after the Allahabad High Court order, the CBI on Friday took over the investigation into the mysterious death of deputy chief medical officer Y S Sachan in district jail here by registering a murder case.

The officials of the National Investigating Agency (NIA), Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the Crime Branch will try to ascertain underworld's role in the recent multiple blasts in Mumbai, which left 18 dead and 133 wounded, reports said on Friday.

To implement Right to Education, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to recruit 1,500 new teachers on contract basis.

Delft University of Technology has developed an intelligent street lighting system, which automatically dims the lights when there are no vehicles or pedestrians in the vicinity.

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