Monsoon brings JE in Uttar Pradesh, toll rising
After claiming thousands of lives in the past three decades, vector-borne Japanese Encephalitis (JE) has once again hit eastern Uttar Pradesh with the onset of monsoon

Now special packages for funeral rites too
Travel operators offer them and so do shopping malls. And now, special packages tailored to suit various budgets are on offer in cremation grounds in Uttar Pradesh for those performing funeral rites.

US drones, Pak Army target militant strongholds; 30 killed
At least 30 militants, including a top Taliban commander, were killed in Pakistan's restive northwest and the adjoining tribal belt where a US drone fired missiles targeting a militant hideout and the Army continued its air and ground offensive.

Mehsud buying children to make suicide bombers: Reports
Turning suicide bombing into a "production output" Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud is spending up to Rs one million to buy children who could be made suicide bombers, US media on Friday quoted Pakistani and American officials as saying.

Shattered by violence, united in grief
There were fresh clashes on Thursday night at Udaigiri in Mysore in Karnataka where three people died in communal violence. Two people were stabbed overnight - they are now recovering in hospital.

Mysore clashes: 14-year-old killed
There were communal clashes in Mysore on Thursday but if that's not tragic enough, a 14-year-old boy was also killed when police fired to bring the clashes under control.