Sestri Ponente (Italy), Oct 12 (IANS/AKI) A new warship built for the Indian Navy was launched at an Italian shipyard in a colourful ceremony amid recitation of Vedic hymns and breaking of a coconut.

WELLINGTON - New Zealand's national museum has upset feminists by telling pregnant and menstruating women to stay away from a behind-the-scenes tour to protect themselves from spirits in Maori artefacts, news reports said Tuesday.

TITLAGARH - Seventy-seven labourers, who were rescued from a brick factory in Bangalore, returned to their hometown in Titlagarh in Orissa's Bolangir District on Monday.

PANAJI - A probe has been initiated against an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who was caught fishing along with his relatives in a hi-tech marine patrol vessel Sunday morning, a police official said.

GORAKHPUR - Uttar Pradesh police raided illicit liquor manufacturing units and made several arrests in Gorakhpur district over the weekend.