NEW DELHI: Cloudy skies but little rain seems to be the fate of Delhi and much of northwestern India as the Met's predictions for rain since July 21 have failed to materialize and the scenario does not look encouraging till the end of July.

Guwahati: Fresh incidents of arson in interior areas of Kokrajhar district were reported today leading to shoot-at-sight orders, indefinite curfew and flag march by army even as the toll in the ethnic violence Assam rose to 21.

Kanpur: Captain Lakshmi Sehgal, who was part of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army, died here today following a brief illness.

New Delhi : A woman gave birth to a baby girl inside a moving  Delhi Metro train on the Badarpur – Central Secretariat corridor  on Sunday morning ..

Udaipur: In yet another incident of cruelty against women, a woman was stripped naked, paraded in public, then tied up, thrashed and her head shaven by the members of a village Panchayat in Udaipur, Rajasthan. The woman's fault was that she had an extra-marital relationship with a man from the neighbourhood and eloped with him.

New Delhi: Violence-hit Maruti Suzuki on Saturday declared an indefinite lockout at its Manesar plant but firmly ruled out the possibility of shifting operations to Gujarat. "There is no possibility of removing the plant from Manesar. Such reports are absolutely fictitious," said Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) Chairman RC Bhargava said at a press conference in New Delhi.

Srinagar: Two sevadars of an Amarnath Yatra pilgrim camp have been taken into custody, after a 35-year-old female pilgrim from Jalandhar filed an FIR with Srinagar police alleging that the culprits were making obscene

Jaipur: Three months after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari announced USD one million donation for Ajmer dargah during his visit to the country, the shrine authorities are still waiting for the release of the money.

Kathmandu: At least 90 pilgrims, mostly Indians, were killed today when an overcrowded bus skidded off the road and plunged into the Gandak Canal in southern Nepal.

Jaipur: In a reflection of the dismal situation for the girl child in Rajasthan, two more newborns were today abandoned in the state, including in the capital, while authorities are investigating an alarming trend of babies being killed by denying them feed or treatment.