RAMESWARAM: Thirty eight fishermen from Tamil Nadu were apprehended by the Sri Lankan navy while they were fishing in the Palk Strait on Monday night.

NEW DELHI: The government on Monday blocked in Parliament opposition's effort to move a resolution condemning the death of women and children in Gaza which would have been read as aimed against Israel, leading the Congress and others to stage a walk out.

NEW DELHI: For the first time, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) will this week take stock of the targets set by each infrastructure ministry after the Narendra Modi government took charge.

RANCHI: Wading past the surging devotees, Poonam Devi makes a desperate bid to reach a man walking a few metres ahead of her. Her struggle ends in vain as he disappears in the crowd out to witness the "rath yatra" that attracts thousands to the Jagannath temple every year in June-July. Tired and breathless, she stops to explain that he is the man who took her 14-year-old daughter away to Delhi without her knowledge. It has been a year and she has not heard from her.

LUCKNOW: Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is still not certain over the formation of government in Delhi, while Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has moved into poll gear.

NEW DELHI: In a major move to remove unnecessary procedures, the shipping ministry will now issue lifetime licences to Indian ships and any other ship chartered by an Indian citizen or an Indian company.

NAGPUR: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is learned to have told BJP president Amit Shah not to expect the organisation's help in the forthcoming assembly elections in some states, including Maharashtra, while Shah was on his first visit to the city after becoming party chief to seek the blessings of the sarsanghachalak.

PUNE: Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will not receive any additional funds for infrastructural projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) as the BJP government has finally drawn the curtains on the scheme and scrapped the previous government's plan to launch the second phase.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered setting up of a special court to exclusively hold trial of cases relating to irregular allotment of coal block allocations following its own footsteps in the 2G spectrum scam cases.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Fortaleza, Brazil and invited him to visit the Kudankulam nuclear power plant during his forthcoming visit in December.