NEW DELHI: As part of its efforts to clamp down on hoarding of onions and potatoes and rein in their prices, the Centre on Wednesday empowered states to fix a limit on the quantities of the kitchen staples that can be held in stock.

 PATNA: The RJD and Congress on Wednesday attacked the Narendra Modi government for increasing rail fares, hiking prices of petroleum products and for the rising prices of almost all essential commodities, including onions, despite making promises of 'achche din aane wale hain' (good days are coming) to the public during the recent Lok Sabha elections.

NEW DELHI: Yellapragada Sudershan Rao, the new chairperson of Indian Council of Historical Research, is an active member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Yojana and heads its Andhra Pradesh chapter. He is currently involved in a project that would fix the date of Mahabharata war.

 NEW DELHI: Road transport ministry issued a "whitepaper" on the dismal performance of NHAI while putting all blames on other line ministries during UPA regime

PANAJI: The pre-monsoon churning of currents on the high seas throws up sticky and oily tar balls, which turn people away from Goa's pristine beaches annually. This May to October menace has grown in magnitude over the last four decades since it was first noticed in the 1970s.

 LONDON: British prime minister David Cameron has warned that the world could be "cast back into the dark ages of medicine" where people die from treatable infections because deadly bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics.

 WASHINGTON: US military advisors have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats by Islamist militant group al Shabaab, US officials said.

SAO PAULO: Lionel Messi is not one to throw tantrums on the pitch, even if he is at the receiving end of a violent tackle or a nasty elbow digging into his ribs.

LONDON: Call me Dimitrov, Grigor Dimitrov, the Bulgarian hunk may well have been saying. Nicknamed 'Baby Fed' because of his playing style that is similar to that of the 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer, and more recently 'Mr Sharapova', courtesy his two-year romance with the Russian superstar, the 23-year-old has often said that he disliked both the names.

RIO DE JANEIRO: In German director Wim Wender's 1972 film 'The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty', the protagonist goalkeeper commits a murder but is not a suspect because he doesn't go into hiding.