New Delhi, Mar 16 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that inflationary pressure on food items has started coming down.

Hyderabad, Mar 16 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Police on Monday recovered a huge cache of arms in the state.

Bangalore, Mar 16 (ANI): A shootout took place between two unidentified men and security guards outside the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s Byalalu Centre, around 40 kilometers from Bangalore early on Tuesday morning.

New Delhi, Mar 16 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari is expected to announce the party's new team of office bearers on Tuesday, thereby ending a three-month long suspense.

Kolkata, Mar 16 (ANI): Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) activists blocked roads in Kolkata on Monday as a mark their mass protest against the rising prices of essential commodities.

New Delhi, Mar 16 (ANI): The Communist Party of India (CPI) slammed the Congress-led Central Government for not addressing the problem of price rise in the country.

New Delhi, Mar 16 (ANI): The Justice B N Srikrishna Committee formed by the Central Government to initiate steps for the formation of a separate state of Telangana will meet in New Delhi on Thursday to asses the steps forward so far and talk about the responses received with respect to Telangana statehood demand.

Kolkata: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) took into custody six youths after being offloaded from a Patna-Kolkata-Bangalore Indigo flight on accusations of misbehaving with an air hostess.

A 55-year-old Pakistani woman has been arrested at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu with fake Indian currency worth Rs.3 million, police said.

Washington, March 16 (IANS) Asserting that India would not scale down in its operations in Afghanistan after the recent attacks on Indians there, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has asked the international community to stay the course in the war torn nation.

Kolkata, March 16 (IANS) With the women's reservation bill getting through the Rajya Sabha hurdle, sexual minority groups in Kolkata are now seeking a similar quota for themselves as well as reservation in other fields such as health, education and employment.

Muslim women have reacted angrily to a leading Muslim cleric's advice to keep away from politics and concentrate on home and family, saying this could be his personal view and there is no such stipulation in Islam.