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India has the largest number of stunted children below the age of five in the world, according to the latest United Nations Children's Fund report. Approximately 200 million children, under the age of five, suffer from stunted growth in the developing world. The report 'Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition' found that stunting is primarily caused due to childhood under-nutrition, which contributes to more than a third of all deaths in children under five.

How a 25-year-old Bihari native impressed his bosses in the dreaded Lashkar-e-Tayiba.

The Centre had earlier said that it would not interfere.

A day after the Left Front’s Assembly bypoll humiliation, a veteran minister in Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s cabinet echoed Mamata Banerjee’s demand for the Chief Minister’s resignation, followed by early elections....

BJP chief Rajnath Singh Wednesday met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to discuss “a host of issues” related to the party and its future....

With the Centre planning to move in more forces to combat Left-wing insurgents, the Maoists have for the first time indicated that they could use civilians in the war against the government....

As Inspector General (Operations), Major General A K Gupta led National Security Guard (NSG) personnel for more than 60 hours against gunmen....

Almost since the time it was adopted as the national song, Vande Mataram has been associated as much with politics as with patriotism, striking uncomfortable communal chords.....

The US decision to appoint Robin Raphel as coordinator for non-military aid to Pakistan has run into controversy over conflict of interest with latest disclosures from a lobbying firm....

Manu Sharma's parole controversy ended with his surrender on Tuesday.

Chicago court extended the period of filing indictment against the accused.

Cricket returned to the Valley, briefly, as the Ranji Trophy Plate Division match between Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana got underway at the Sher-e-Kashmir Stadium in Srinagar on Wednesday....

Operators failed to prove activity legal, leases ran out long ago, says state mines director....

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, the prime author of the new direct tax code, has said the industry is making a mistake by comparing the proposed tax code....

National carrier Air India said its losses more than doubled to Rs 5,548.26 crore for financial year 2008-09 as compared with a loss of Rs 2,400 crore in 2007-09....

A day after his wife Dimple lost in Firozabad where Rahul Gandhi tipped the scales with a surprise decision to campaign, Akhilesh Yadav sounded off a "Rahul versus Akhilesh" battle cry, promising to settle scores.

Four people were killed and 44 fishermen who had ventured into the sea were missing after Cyclone Phyan hit the Maharashtra coast on Wednesday morning. The cyclone, however, spared Mumbai and the Gujarat coast

The Indian Air Force's Sukhoi-30MKI fighter is a beast that is tamed only by technology. The aircraft's giant AL-31FP turbofan engines, which allow manoeuvres that no other fighter can dream of, are monitored by its pilots on high-tech computer screens called multi-function displays, or MFDs. A quick glance across the MFDs also provides information about on-board weapons and sensors, telling the pilots everything about how the aircraft is flying and fighting.

KOLKATA: A minister belonging to a party which is a constituent of the ruling Left Front on Wednesday came out in favour of early polls in West Bengal following the latest electoral reverses in Assembly by-elections. Fisheries Minister ...

WASHINGTON: An U.S. court has given it two more months to file an indictment against David Coleman Headley, a key suspect. — PTI ...

Bangalore: The State Cabinet met here on Wednesday after a gap of 20 days, the first meeting after the internal struggle that convulsed the Bharatiya Janata Party in the State. Of the 32-member Council of Ministers, 27 attended the ...

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation will soon commission a study on the household and livelihood profile of 422 slums across the city. While it is to effectively implement the schemes funded under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal ...

At least Rs 640 crore was deposited in cash by one of the alleged front companies of the former Jharkhand CM in a state-owned bank in Mumbai. The bank failed to trigger an alert to intel agencies tasked to keep a tab.

New Delhi: In the backdrop of American terror suspect David Headley’s visits to India, the Union government on Wednesday warned Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Uttarakhand and Maharashtra against terror attacks, particularly on military ...

Mumbai: Cyclone Phyan, which passed along the Mumbai and Konkan coasts, claimed four lives on Wednesday and caused massive damage to property in the coastal districts of Ratnagiri, Raigad, Sindhudurg, Thane and Palghar in ...

14-yr-old Reeda Sheikh died of H1N1 in Pune's Jahangir Hospital on Aug 3.

State developing four electronic manufacturing hubs

WASHINGTON: Heeding the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s call to grant it some more time to probe a failed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror plot in India, a U.S. court has given it another two months to file indictment against David Coleman ...