GIRIDIH (Jharkhand): Maoists blew up a stretch of railway track in Jharkhand's Giridih district in the wee hours on the third day of their 72-hour shutdown on Tuesday, affecting train services, the police said here. The tracks were blown up under Nimiaghat police station in the district, Superintendent of Police Ravi Kant Dhan said. "Trains on this section have been stopped on both up and down lin ..... MORE >>>

AHMEDABAD: Yet another feather has been added to the cap of India’s Rs 386-crore lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1; it has not only discovered water molecules but also new types of rocks. This was announced on Monday by Carle Pieters, principal investigator of Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), a Nasa payload on board Chandrayaan-1 which detected water molecules along with indigenous Moon Impact Probe and Hy ..... MORE >>>

BEIJING: India is “intensifying military penetration” in Nepal and Bhutan, a Chinese analyst said in a government-run website. The Himalayan kingdoms have become theatres of conflict between military strategists from India and China, it suggested. The analyst, Dai Bing, also raised a rare issue saying that the Bhutan Air Force has deployed defense equipment along the border with China after gettin ..... MORE >>>

Chandigarh: Former Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) SPS Rathore, who has been charged for allegedly molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra, a young promising tennis star in 1990s, was on Monday punched and stabbed thrice with a blunt instrument by an unidentified assailant outside the court premises. The assailant has been arrested.Earlier on Monday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court agreed t ..... MORE >>>

Srinagar: In one of the most tragic incidents, 13 army personnel, including an officer, were killed on Monday and 15 seriously injured when a group of about 350 men were swept away by a snow avalanche while setting up a winter warfare camp at Khilanmarg, 70 kms from Srinagar.An army spokesman, Colonel J S Brar, said that scores more were still missing as rescuers were searching for them in deep sn ..... MORE >>>