India

Hockey India has decided to honour late Surjit Singh, Shivaji Pawar and Mohinder Singh along with the rest of the 1975 World Cup winning squad on Wednesday.

A case was filed on Monday against a Samajwadi Party legislator in Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency when his son, in his presence, became involved in a scuffle with a central paramilitary trooper, officials said.

The BJP had earlier opposed Lt Suhag's appointment saying only the new government should choose the next Army chief.

English chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (nee Dorothy Mary Crowfoot) won the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for determining the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12.

With polling in Varanasi underway, Narendra Modi on Monday spoke about the 'Ganga-Jamuna Tehjeeb' of the holy city and appealed to the voters there to reflect its spirit of unity and harmony through their votes.

A spurned lover allegedly shot at a newly-married woman when she had come to her parent's place in the district, police said on Monday.

The world's first airplane completely powered by electricity has successfully taken to the skies for its maiden flight, and could bring down air travel cost by more than a third, its developer Airbus said.

Powered by Windows Phone 8.1, the Lumia 630 features a 4.5-inch display, 5-megapixel auto focus camera and 8GB of expandable internal storage.

LG's new G Pad devices - G Pad 7.0, G Pad 8.0 and G Pad 10.1 - will be unveiled at the MedPI 2014, one of the biggest tech trade shows in Europe, from May 13-16.

Two tribal women were arrested for allegedly trafficking women from the Seraikela-Kharswan district to Delhi, the police said on Sunday.

Syed Sallauddin Pasha, a dancer and choreographer, was arrested from his home at Madhu Vihar area in east Delhi.

The Madhya Pradesh Women and Child Welfare Department on Sunday prevented marriages of 16 minors at a mass wedding event at Badodiya Khan village near Indore.

Special arrangements have also been put in place for winged inmates of the zoo.

Hamilton took the world championship lead from Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg with a closely fought victory in the Spanish Grand Prix.

A Naxal-turned-politician was shot dead by unidentified persons in Nalgonda town of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, police said.

Seven political workers - four belonging to CPI-M and three to ruling Trinamool Congress - were injured in an incident of violence at Belghoria in the outskirts of Kolkata.