Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died after consuming an unknown poison, a Jordanian doctor claimed Thursday. Arafat's medical reports suggest that  »

Palestinian president ready to exhume Arafat's body to confirm poisoning

Arafat's widow calls to exhume the dead leader's body

A year after three coordinated bomb blasts rocked India's commercial capital Mumbai, a legal official says that it may take at least another three years for the trial to begin.  »

Even as President Barack Obama is plugging his signature law to lower health care costs at home, his administration is pressurising India and other countries to impose higher prices even for lifesaver cancer drugs. Obama administration's multiple "strategies to affect drug pricing abroad by using American international political  »

Amid national outrage over a Uttar Pradesh panchayat's Taliban-style diktat against women, defiant villagers Friday thrashed two policemen for arresting two of the panchayat members. The Asaara panchayat in  »

Two more judges sent to jail in cash-for-bail scam

A city court Thursday sent two suspended judges to judicial custody till July 26 in cash-for-bail scandal involving mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy.  »

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is mulling floating financial instruments that mimic returns on gold to curb the current account deficit, Deputy Governor Anand Sinha said Thursday. Gold imports have contributed  »

Amid Abu Jundal's revelations about the involvement of Pakistani state agencies in 26/11, former minister and MP Shashi Tharoor says that  »