Assam riots: Clashes continue for 7th day; toll rises to 44

Clashes between Bodos and minority immigrants in four Assam districts continued for the seventh day today, leaving 44 people dead even as Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi insisted the situation was "improving" and rapped the media for portraying the state as "burning".

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would visit Assam on Saturday to take stock of the situation and the

PA Sangma harps on history to support victory claim

BHUBANESWAR: Presidential nominee PA Sangma on Sunday claimed that he would win the race to Raisina Hill by drawing parallels with the polls in 1969. "This fight is going to be like the one in 1969 when V V Giri defeated the official Congress candidate, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy," he told MPs and MLAs of the ruling BJD.

The former Lok Sabha speaker was in Bhubaneswar to canvass for the July 19 polls. He also addressed a separate meeting of BJP legislators.

He said the 2012 polls had another similarity with the contest between Giri and Reddy. "In the past, people did not know about what was going on in the

Germany 1-2 Italy: Balotelli double sets up Spain final

The enigmatic striker has come through on the big stage, with two well-taken first half goals leading the Azzurri into the Euro final for the first time since 2000

A brilliant performance from Mario Balotelli has driven Italy into the Euro 2012 final, after a 2-1 win over Germany at the National Stadium in Warsaw on Thursday. 

The Manchester City forward has hit the headlines for all the right reasons, opening the scoring with a powerful header before smashing home an emphatic second to

Pakistan Appoints a Prime Minister

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ousted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his cabinet for failure to comply with an earlier court ruling demanding a corruption probe into President Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the PPP.

Another court on Thursday then blocked the PPP's first selection to succeed Mr. Gilani by issuing an arrest warrant against the new candidate for drug-related charges. The court also issued a

Yeddyurappa gets advance bail in illegal mining case

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday granted conditional anticipatory bail to former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and three of his family members in an illegal mining case holding that the allegations in the Central Bureau of Investigation FIR are “not something new”.

Besides Mr. Yeddyurappa, his sons B.Y. Raghavendra and B.Y. Vijendra, and son-in-law R.N. Sohan Kumar secured relief after a CBI court rejected their bail plea on June 13, 2012.

In his order, Justice Subash B. Adi said the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) report on illegal mining on the basis of which the