The Centre has asked the Maharashtra government to take strong action against groups responsible for the recent happenings in Mumbai, a veiled reference to Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in the wake of their campaign against migrants and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan.

Heritage Oil says the sale of its assets in Uganda to the UK’s Tullow Oil will be approved “imminently”.

‘He’s definitely going to be treated differently,’ retired NYPD detective Derrick Parker says of Wayne’s prison stint. By Jayson Rodriguez Lil Wayne Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Lil Wayne’s life revolves around a daily regime of “SportsCenter,” studio time and sweets. But on Tuesday (February 9), the Cash Money lyricist will be formally sentenced to prison after he struck a plea deal with Manhattan prosecutors stemming from a 2007 arrest in New York on gun charges

A day after Union Minister Sharad Pawar met Bal Thackeray requesting him to withdraw its threat against Australian cricketers’ participation in IPL, Shiv Sena on Monday said it would take a final call on the issue in two-three days.

Arsenal winger Rachel Yankey is back in the England fold after her shock omission from the squad for last year’s European Championship finals.

New York: India-born celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander pleads not guilty to dozens of new charges of sexually assaulting at least nine women and underage girls here between 2002 and 2006 after being jailed for 59 years by a Los Angeles court for similar crimes.

ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland must consider the automatic exchange of tax information with European Union governments if Swiss banks are to have unlimited access to EU markets, the country’s finance minister said in an interview published on Sunday.

Florida State will vacate athletic victories from 2006 and 2007, including 12 credited to former football coach Bobby Bowden, as its penalty for an academic fraud scandal in 2006-07 involving 61 student-athletes, the school announced.

LONDON (Reuters) – Force India rejected a report on Friday that they were in danger of being forced out of business and said their new Formula One car would start testing as planned in Spain next week.

Miguel Angel Jimenez wins the Dubai Desert Classic after a play-off against Lee Westwood.

Nicole Richie, Hugh Jackman, other stars also contributed items to Cyrus’ eBay auction.

BJP President Nitin Gadkari has held the “wrong economic policies of the government” responsible for price rise, and asserted that not just the Agriculture Minister but the entire Cabinet of the Manmohan Singh government is to be blamed for food inflation.

‘I wanna give all my fans something for free,’ Chris says, in Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid Ludacris Photo: MTV News This Week’s Main Pick Street King : Ludacris Holding It Down For : ATL Mixtape Album : Ludacris Presents Conjure: A Hustler’s Spirit Real Spit : The stylistic and lyrical monster Chris Bridges pours his rap magma on tracks like his official Battle of the Sexes blast-off banger “How Low” and Snoop Dogg’s instrumental for “I Wanna Rock.” “I did a verse to the beat,” Chris said in Los Angeles last week. “I love the beat so much.

London 2012 officials are considering moving the badminton event to Wembley to save money, BBC London learns.

Investors have become poorer by a whopping Rs 2.7 lakh crore so far in 2010 due to continued downfall in the domestic stock markets.

Stocks erased big losses by the close Friday, with technology shares leading the advance, following a three-session rout that had taken the market to its lowest point since last fall.

Debt ridden Vishal Retail today said global private investment firm TPG has proposed to buy stake in it, which is subject to approval by its lenders.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Governor David Paterson is not planning to resign, his spokeswoman Marissa Shorenstein said on Monday, calling blog reports to that effect “entirely fabricated.”