Seven persons, including three children, were killed and 40 others injured when a bus in which they were travelling lost control and dived into Khannaut river in the neighbouring Pilibhit district in Uttar Pradesh, the police said.

Internationally acclaimed Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the grand prize at the prestigious Copenhagen International Sand sculpture festival in Denmark for his sculpture on environment.

BJP will launch a week-long 'Jail Bharo' campaign protesting against alleged corrupt practices of the UPA government.

In a bid to promote the ‘Save Ganga’ campaign and tourism in Uttarakhand, former Miss India Earth Niharika Singh will run at the Rishikesh Half Marathon on May 25.

Eighteen people have been killed and 15 others missing as heavy rain lashed south China, the government said on Friday.

Ashes of Sarabjit Singh, who died after being brutally assaulted in a Pakistani jail, were on Sunday immersed in the Beas river at Goindwal Sahib in the neighbouring Tarn Taran district, as hundreds of people bade adieu to him with tearful eyes.

Socialite Paris Hilton wants to get married and have children with her 21-year-old Spanish boyfriend River Viiperi. The 32-year-old, jailed in 2007 after being caught driving with a suspended license while on probation for driving under the influence of liquor, says she is no longer a party girl, reports a website.

Missing for the last five days from their houses, a minor girl and a youth were found dead with their hands tied in the Yamuna river, police said on Sunday.

The endangered Gangetic river dolphin population has been stable in Bihar over the last six years, despite accidental and intentional killing of the mammal in the rivers, an official said in Patna.

The US India Business Council (USIBC) is planning to launch a major campaign, on a scale witnessed during the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, against certain killer provisions in the US immigration reform bill, in particular those related to much sought after H-1B visas.