Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has been diagnosed with breast tumours at a hospital in New York. Doctors found the tumours "quite big" and advised her biopsy to check on possible malignancy, bdnews24.com reported.
The last time this happened was 37 years ago when citizens' groups stood guard outside the rooms where the boxes containing the ballots cast in the 1977 general election - after the emergency was lifted - were stored.
About 50 people, including a senior police officer and two media persons, were injured in a communal clash in Meerut Saturday, police said. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. in Teer Gehran area when a group of people was installing a water facilitation kiosk near a mosque.
An Indian-American Bollywood concert promoter in California has been convicted of aggravated mayhem for paying three men to maim his ex-wife last year, leaving her with permanent facial injuries.
The British teenaged girl who attacked an 80-year-old Sikh pensioner in a city centre in Britain's Coventry last year has been jailed for two years by the Warwick crown court.
Taking on Congress president Sonia Gandhi for calling him a person of "low thought", BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Friday accused her of "stooping low" due to impending defeat in the general elections.