New Delhi: In the race with China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has pitched for a Rs 5000 crore supercomputer for India. But the question is whether it will be enough to match China's prowess....

New Delhi: Anuj Bidve's murder has sent shockwaves through the Indian community in the UK. CNN-IBN spoke to Vikrant Gupta who has begun an online campaign for justice for Bidve.

"The murderer who seems to be not in his right state of mind has done this act. I won’t worry about this thing on a large scale something which has happened out of the blue. I'm sure something like this won’t happen again but nothing can be guaranteed," Gupta said....

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh government proposes to make sending of an unwanted message on mobile phone a cognizable offence, Director General of Police DS Manhas said in Shimla on Monday.

"There is a proposal to amend the police rule under the State Police Act to declare the sending of unwanted messages on the mobile phone a cognizable offence", he told reporters....

NEW DELHI: India has found a way to increase the number of doctors specifically to treat cancer. The Union health ministry will soon allow every professor of three disciplines - radiotherapy, medical oncology and surgical oncology - to teach three students as against the existing norm of two....

NEW DELHI: India has allowed foreign individual investors, pension funds and trusts to directly invest in equities, in an attempt to shore up investor confidence and attract money from overseas to bridge widening current account deficit....

London:  A 20-year-old Briton has been charged with the murder of the Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead in Salford last Monday in an unprovoked incident.

Kiaran Stapleton, from the Ordsall area, has been charged with the murder and will appear before the City of Manchester Magistrates' Court today, the police said, adding that the investigation was continuing....

New Delhi :With Anna Hazare out of action for at least a month due to his falling immunity, IAC's plan to tour the five poll-bound states is likely to be put on a backburner.

The anti-corruption campaigner, suffering from a severe chest congestion, began recovering on Sunday though doctors
advised him not to fast for one month due to his falling immunity.....

New Delhi: Oil companies will meet on Monday to revise rates of petrol because of the weakening rupee. But any hike will need a political clearance given that Assembly Elections in five states are around the corner.

A hike of about Rs 2.10-2.13 per litre in petrol price is likely...

CUDDALORE/PUDUCHERRY: The much-dreaded ‘Cyclone Thane’ crossed the coast between Cuddalore and Puducherry around 6.30 am on Friday with wind speedsof 120 km per hour, leaving a trail of destruction and taking a toll of at least 28 lives, uprooting lakhs of trees and damaging roads, fishing boats and houses, besides snapping electricity and communication lines, thus disrupting normal life.....

London:  A British police force apologised on Friday after it confirmed that the father of an Indian student shot dead in Manchester found out about his son's murder on Facebook.

Anuj Bidve, a 23-year-old postgraduate student, was shot in the head at close range early on Monday in Salford as he walked into Manchester city centre with Indian friends....