India

Viswanathan Anand started his campaign at the Bilbao Final Masters with a crushing win over former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine.

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Sunday inaugurated the observatory at Saanji Chhat in Trikuta hills.

Federer dismantled world number 17 Fognini 6-2 6-3 7-6 (4) in just under two hours to give the Swiss an unassailable 3-1 lead.

The boat was carrying a wedding party when it met with the accident near Sher Shah Bridge area in the central Pakistani city.

Irfan Thodi, Ganapathy and Khusbir Kaur are India's hopes in the 20-km walk while Basant Bahadur Rana and Sandeep Kumar will be taking part in the 50-km category.

The body was found with an empty pesticide bottle lying nearby after neighbours broke open the bolted door in presence of the police.

Residents in at least nine northern provinces, which have been drenched by days of rains, were warned to take precautions and stay away from already soggy mountainsides and swollen rivers.

The National Aviation Guild (NAG), the Jet pilots' union, said a 2,900 ft drop in altitude by a Jet Airways Boeing 777 last month was erroneously reported as a 5,000 ft plunge by the media.

Deputy chief of the Islamic Hamas movement in Gaza, said that his movement is not intending to hold direct talks with Israel.

The initial estimated loss to hotels, trade, agriculture - horticulture, roads and bridges in the Jammu and Kashmir regions itself is Rs 2,630 crore.

DGCA has directed all carriers to cap their fares for flights to Delhi from Srinagar and Leh.

David Cameron confirmed Haines' death in a statement on Saturday after the British Foreign Office had said earlier that it was "working urgently to verify the video."

An NDRF team from Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu has been deployed for this special task.

The President noted that India-Vietnam partnership has reached a "high point" and is also beneficial to ASEAN and the region beyond.

The Punjab CM said that he will once again take up the matter of hiking the compensation with the Union government.

The government added two archery coaches and one each in boxing and wushu to the Indian contingent at Incheon.