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CPI (M) MLAs from Tamil Nadu will donate their one month's salary towards flood-relief and rehabilitation efforts in Uttarakhand. The ten party legislators will donate an overall sum of Rs five lakh, CPI-M state secretary G Ramakrishnan said in a statemen...

The water level in the Vaigai Dam has increased by three feet in the last six days as the South West monsoon rains intensified bringing rain to the catchment areas.

Edward Snowden has been charged with espionage, theft of government data and conveying classified information to unauthorised person.

She alleged that the youths abused them and one of them assaulted her in presence of policemen but they did not do anything.

The Madhya Pradesh government has deployed 10 buses at Haridwar to bring back the safely stranded pilgrims in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand, official sources said on Sunday.

Four children, including three of a family, were killed and one other was hurt after being hit by lightning during thundershowers at separate places in Raigarh district, police said on Sunday.

Katy Perry will be honoured with the commemorative plaque next year.

Kapil admits to getting scared before going up on the stage but says it is this fear that brings out the best in him.

The Aligarh Muslim University will send a team to provide medical aid to people hit by nature's fury in Uttarakhand, Pro-Vice Chancellor S. Ahmad Ali said.

Malayalam actress Manju Warrier and Bollywood megastar Big B will feature in a tv ad for a jewellery brand.

Police had not yet established the nationalities of the victims but they had received reports that several were Chinese.

The United States said on Saturday it wants Hong Kong to extradite Edward Snowden and urged it to act quickly, paving the way for what could be a lengthy legal battle to prosecute the former National Security Agency contractor on espionage charges.

Tropical storm Bebinca disrupted at least 147 flights and left more than 8,000 passengers stranded at an airport in south China's Hainan island province, officials said.

Vice Chairman of SHSMT Narinderjit Singh Bindra said that "all pilgrims would be evacuated by Sunday morning."

Thirty-four Excise department officials were suspended on charges of dereliction of duty by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday.

Three persons, two of them minors, who were sleeping outside their house, were killed when a speeding sand-laden truck veered off the road and overturned on them here in Badwaha on Saturday, police said.