Asif Ali Khan

Tousif Shariff can now not only understand English but can also speak the language. This auto driver, who has been in the profession for two decades now, never thought he would get an opportunity to learn to speak English in his lifetime.

Sarojini Naidu's poem on Hussainsagar lake is likely to be inscribed on a stone plaque at Tank Bund here to immortalise the life and times of the Nightingale of India in the princely Hyderabad State.

A woman was arrested from the IGI Airport on Tuesday for trying to smuggle two kilograms gold into the country.

Amritsar: It was a lyrical glasnost (free speech) for Pakistani singers as they expressed their feelings in mellifluous rendition, without fear of being targeted by mullahs or the Taliban as in Pakistan.

Mohammed Abdul Asif Ali Khan, a 46-year-old electrician, was arrested for cheating an unemployed youth. He took Rs 5 lakh from the victim after promising to secure employment for him in Nuclear Fuel Complex.

A 45-year-old imam of a mosque in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad district has been booked for preventing a local resident in saffron kurta from entering the place of worship and insulting him in front of others, police said on Tuesday.

In today’s episode of India’s Got Talent the judges will announce the finalists who will battle it out in the coming weeks.

A four-year-old girl from Santa Cruz (W) was allegedly raped by a neighbour while her parents were away on Thursday night.The police arrested the neighbour, Sanjay Mohite (37), on Saturday.

A dog's death has put two vets in the dock.That is because it was no ordinary dog.The 11-month old Siberian husky was one of the pets in chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's camp office Pragathi Bhavan.

A draft Rs 10 currency note of the Nizam government in 1923 had the historic Ramappa temple on its reverse while it carried the picture of another temple on the obverse. This temple, which obviously is from within the erstwhile Nizam dominion, is yet to be identified despite several efforts by numismatists and heritage experts.

A Sri Lankan woman Nasreen (name changed), aged about 23, consumed poison in front of her lover's house in Zakir Hussain Mohalla in Srinivasapur late Saturday night.

Dasara festival this year, much like in the past, is set to be flooded with `gruha pravesham’ (house-warming ceremony) across the twin cities. The auspicious day, market watchers say, is likely to see at least a dozen families (on an average) move in to each of the newly constructed projects in Hyderabad.

The traditional Hyderabadi dastarkhwan has a new entrant: Laham Mandi.From the exotic desert peninsula, the simple dish of rice and tender mutton has taken the city by storm.

After a good run all through 2011, the real estate industry in the Old City has suddenly come to a grinding halt now.