Yet another report confirms India’s losing battle against hunger. In the Global Hunger Index, India ranks 117th for the prevalence of underweight chil

Overall, India is ranked 96th out of 119 countries covered by the index, which doesn’t paint a rosy picture per se. But India comes off far worse in its record for malnutrition in children, as measured by body weight.

China and India 'top bribe list'

Anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI) put the two countries at the top of its Bribe Payers' Index of 30 exporting nations.

More than 50% Indians unemployed in '04-05

More than half of the country's population was reeling under unemployment during 2004-05 with urban India representing the most number of people without proper work.

"Communalism continues to pose a challenge to secular India"

"The rise of Hindu extremism, which has sought primarily to target Muslims, has unleashed a cycle of violence that has only complicated matters. In the larger context of Pakistan-India relations, Hindu extremists have also cast aspersions on the Indianness of Muslims and consider them as Pakistan's Trojan horse," it noted.

Angry father starves son to death

"It is inhuman to kill a son in such a brutal way. The body has been sent for postmortem and police have registered a case against the father," Kabra added.

Hyd man locks up wife for opposing 2nd marriage

Authorities have arrested a man who locked his wife in a room for three years and made her drink her own urine, after she opposed him taking a second wife, police said on Thursday.

China 'may see greater IMF role' - Why Not INDIA?

Four developing nations, including China, could see their power increased within the IMF, a report has said.

103 farmer suicides in Vidarbha in August

Reeling out statistics, Samiti, in a release here today, said from a "meagre" 16 suicides in June 2005, the figure shot up to 68 a year later and 90 last month, followed by 103 till August 29.

Akshaya, who was a father of a two-year-old daughter, was expecting a male child this time round, said Balaram.

A man in Orissa was so shocked after he heard that his wife had given birth to a girl child that he fell to the ground, hit his head against a wall and succumbed to his injuries.

Vande Mataram - To sing or not to sing? Thats ONLY we have to talk about????

The controversy started when Union Human Resource Minister Arjun Singh said that singing Vande Mataram would be made compulsory in all schools. However, he retracted later and made it 'optional'.


Muslim groups categorically objected to the suggestion.


Therefore, after asking tennis pinup Sania Mirza to get rid of her signature T-shirts and short skirts, Muslim clerics in Hyderabad issued fatwa against the National Song.