Koraput: Suspected Maoists gunned down a trader for opposing the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) in Koraput district, police said on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Loknath Mandia Sahu. Though the exact reason behind the brutal killing is yet to be ascertained, further investigation is on. The incident occurred at around 9 am today when Sahu was purchasing household articles from a grocery shop at Nilabadi village under Bandhugaon police station area.

Ghaziabad: Encountering a stream of grieving family members with one of them even fainting before receiving a posthumous gallantry medal, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday asked the CISF to give a detailed report on the assistance provided to the ten personnel killed in the Naxal attack at NALCO mines in Orissa last year.

New Delhi: Observing that voting percentage among the educated section was far lower than that in the lower rungs of society, senior BJP leader L K Advani has favoured compulsory voting as a remedial measure.

New Delhi: Government on Wednesday said a total of seven aircraft of the Indian Air Force have crashed in air mishaps in the last six months.

Peshawar: Militants on Wednesday stormed into the offices of a US-based NGO in Mansehra area of northwest Pakistan, killing six persons, including two women, and wounding six others.

New Delhi: A strong demand was made in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday for conferring the country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna on cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar for his unparalleled feat in the game.

Rourkela: Two inmates escaped from a juvenile home Rourkela, police said on Wednesday.

New Delhi: The government expects to collect Rs 1,495 crore as toll tax from highways during the current fiscal, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.

Ghaziabad: Terrorism and militancy are being fanned to destabilise the economy of the country which is at the threshold of a double digit growth, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said.

Imphal: Former Manipur BJP unit president Raghumani Sharma died of cerebral stroke at Silchar in Assam, party sources said in Imphal on Wednesday.

Karachi: Pakistan cricket was thrown into turmoil on Wednesday with the country's Board putting an end to the international careers of former captains Mohd Yousuf and Younus Khan besides imposing a one-year ban on Shoaib Malik in the wake of the team's disastrous tour of Australia.

New Delhi: Dismissing Pakistan's allegation that India was involved in the Lahore blast, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Wednesday said it was "most unthinkable" and a "falsehood" that was being spread.

Melbourne: Grieving father of the Indian toddler Gurshan Singh Channa has sought hard sentencing for his housemate Gursewak Dhillon, who admitted placing the unconscious three-year-old boy in the car boot and then dumping him on the roadside.

New Delhi: A day after being marshalled out from the Rajya Sabha, two of the suspended members said there was no question of tendering an apology over their behaviour on women's bill as they were raising the cause of the OBC, dalit and minority women in the House.

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday defended her party's decision to abstain from voting on the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha but said she was in favour of the Constitutional amendment.