LONDON: Europe is facing its biggest threat in decades of importing the crippling polio virus.

MUMBAI: In the old days, gurukul students donning saffron robes would go around town asking for dakshina for their school. In a complete reversal of roles, a group of 1,200 teachers across the state have been knocking on many doors for alms to help out special students who lack the means to make it to a classroom.

NEW DELHI/ HYDERABAD: In the first-ever meeting of the newly-constituted Congress coordination committee, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh advised all the state leaders to fall in line and ensure that the state bifurcation process reaches its logical conclusion .

JAIPUR: The BJP's list of 176 candidates for the upcoming assembly polls has only three Muslims. This measly representation — merely one-and-half per cent of the 200 seats — turns on its head the saffron party's strong urgings to the 60-lakh strong community to shun their reservations about the BJP, showing up the party's own dichotomy.

WASHINGTON: Badmouthed for promoting tawdry kitsch and tell moves, Bollywood's song-and-dance routines — most recently endorsed by first lady Michelle Obama during the White House Diwali celebrations this week - has been recognized as a tool for learning by the US Library of Congress.

CAIRO: Egypt has taken strong objection to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's comments that "Rabaa sign" adopted by the supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi is a symbol of denouncing injustice.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Taliban on Thursday named Hakimullah Mehsud's successor days after the dreaded terrorist alliance's chief was killed in a US drone strike in the country's tribal North Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan.

An American news satire website's play of words and comment on the security of women in India, and particularly in Assam, has evoked sharp criticism from netizens. Social media is abuzz with reactions - many believing the satire to be "true news" - after the website published a report headlined, 'The Assam Rape Festival In India Begins This Week' on November 3.

BALASORE (Odisha): India on Friday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile with a strike range of 700km from a test range off Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the Army.

MANALI: The Manali-Rohtang-Leh highway has been blocked for vehicular traffic following heavy snowfall in Kullu and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday.