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The Sikkim government is considering a proposal by the Forest and Wildlife Department to market the medicinal herb Cordyceps Sinensis,popularly known as Himalayan Viagra.

In yet another administrative reshuffle,the Uttar Pradesh government has transferred five IAS and 9 IPS officers.

As Kerala waits to be soaked in rain,players in tourism industry are trying to beckon visitors with a plethora of packages to enjoy monsoon season.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan urged the Centre to give the state a special package for backward castes.

Fake travel agents squeeze from gullible youths around half the money spent by them to get overseas.

West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee visited a relief camp in North 24 Parganas district housing at least 1200 cyclone affected people.

Twenty nine people,including nine women and a girl,were killed and six injured when a bus carrying them fell into Chambal river,nearly 15 km from Morena,police said.

Thousands of angry villagers torched six rail bogies and a station near Patna,protesting against cancellation of stoppage of a train.

Having lost all the five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand,the BJP received a shot in the arm on Monday when it won the by-election for the Kapkot assembly constituency.

A suspected ISI agent,who allegedly did printing works for the Indian Army,was arrested from Rajasthan's Bikaner district today,a senior police official said.

JMM president Shibu Soren resigned from Jamtara assembly seat,which he had won in a bypoll,to retain his Dumka Lok Sabha seat.

The UP Govt has decided to impose an additional tax up to one per cent on a number of commodities.

Former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said that the new UPA government signifies hope and stability.

Day curfew was lifted in Jalandhar,Phagwara,Hoshiarpur,Malout and Ludhiana in Punjab following improvement in the situation in these areas.

State BJP took a dig at the Congress Government in Delhi for its ambitious projects relating to water and power.

The Centre has decided to withdraw all para-military forces from the riot-hit Kandhamal district by the end of this month.

The war plane,which had taken off for a routine sortie in the forenoon from the Jodhpur airbase,crashed on a barren stretch land in Luni village in Mordijoshyan,near Jodhpur itself.

The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet has approved the decision of the Indore district administration to allot 432.84 acres of land to the IIT,Indore.

With several prominent Muslim leaders deserting it in the recent past,the SP faces a big challenge of finding a credible Muslim face.

Trinamool Congress MPs,who will take oath as Union Ministers on Thursday in Delhi,will return to West Bengal to visit cyclone-ravaged districts.

Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals on Monday asked two nurses to submit their resignations for speaking in their “native tongue” inside the hospital premises.

Buoyed by Muslims support in Lok Sabha polls,Congress plans to go all out to woo the minority community ahead of 2012 assembly polls in UP.

At least 62 people were killed as cyclone 'Aila' ravaged the southern coastlines of Bangladesh,where tidal surges inundated vast tracts of land and breached coastal embankments.