Designer Sabyassachi Mukherjee, the man behind styling Vidya Balan's look at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival, says that as "India is known as a bling country" he used a "little embellishment" to bring freshness.

Expressing surprise over S&P's threat to downgrade India's credit rating, industry bodies on Friday termed the global agency's affirming its negative outlook on the country as unfortunate and harsh.

Expressing disappointment over S&P's rating action, the government on Friday said its fiscal policies are on the right track and there is nothing to be worried about.

It will be a battle to avoid the wooden spoon when laggards Pune Warriors and Delhi Daredevils take field for one last time in the 2013 season of the Pepsi Indian Premier League on Sunday.

India proposes to launch its first navigational satellite, which will provide terrestrial, aerial and marine navigation services and help in disaster and fleet management, on June 12.

The situation continues to remain tense but under control in Rohtak's Karontha village where three persons were killed and about 100 others got injured in a clash between two groups over an ashram. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda ordered a magisterial probe into the violence.

The girl who was found dead on last Saturday near a brothel in Kashmiri Bazar area of Agra was allegedly duped into prostitution by some human traffickers. The sufferings of the girl, who hailed from a humble family of West Bengal, started when she left her home city and reached the Taj city in search of livelihood. This was revealed when Kolkata police, in association with the local police, raided various locations of human traffickers on Thursday. Two persons, who are said to be the residents of Shaheed Nagar area of Agra, have been arrested by the police in this case.

North-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh is reportedly ‘missing’ from the map of India in Maharashtra State Board’s geography textbooks.

Tainted Rajasthan Royals' cricketers Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were on Thursday suspended by their employer Air India after being arrested by the Delhi Police on charges of spot-fixing in the ongoing Indian Premier League matches.

Two security personnel on Friday sustained injuries in a Naxal attack at Maoist-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.