In what comes as a blow to the efforts of city parents' associations which have been campaigning for reining in school fees, Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal said on Friday that the fees of private
A Jharkhand Officer P K Layek abducted by Maoists a week back was set free today after the state government agreed to release some jailed persons bowing to the demand by the Naxals in an
Under attack from both within the ruling UPA and the Opposition over his failure to check spiralling foodgrain prices, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Friday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had no reservations about
In a sudden development, veteran diplomat Shyam Saran has quit his job as Prime Minister's Special Envoy, following reported serious differences Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. "Shri Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister for
Putting a lid on the controversy, Aamir Khan on Friday withdrew his resignation from the copyright panel saying proposed amendments to the 53-year-old law were extremely important and historic. Khan, who had opted out of
India on Friday said there was "nothing wrong" in holding Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan though terrorist camps along the borders in that country were "still active". "It is a considered decision of the government
Just a week ahead of the meeting between Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said issues relating to the probe into 26/11 attacks will be taken up during the
A bomb blast accused has filed a petition in the Bombay high court seeking appointment of a high-powered committee to re-investigate all the post-2002 blast cases in the country and granting bail to the accused
Months after a 17 year-old-girl was gangraped in a moving car, a district court on Friday sentenced three youths, including two who are sons of policemen, to life imprisonment in the case that sent shock
Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor said on Friday that Pakistan was continuing to push in militants from across the border into Jammu and Kashmir but the armed forces deployed there were capable of tackling it.
A 51-hour long ordeal that begian from the midnight of Wednesday ended on Friday evening in Bakshi Ka Talao in Lucknow, as police took control of the mentally deranged youth Shameem who was firing from
In an act of revenge, six youngsters allegedly ran over a Sub Inspector of UP Police shortly after they were released on bail for drunken driving in this satellite township of the national capital. Sub
Evidence gathered so far by the investigators probing the German Bakery blast here has indicated a distinct possibility of the use of remote control as the triggering mechanism, a top police official said on Thursday
Actor Nirmal Pandey, best remembered for his work in films like 'Bandit Queen' and 'God Mother' died in Mumbai on Thursday following a cardiac arrest. He was 46 and is survived by his wife and
Failure to obtain over 40 per cent score on nine different criteria like governance, research output and faculty resources had led to the blacklisting of 44 deemed universities by a government panel. The 44 deemed
Former BJP president Rajnath Singh, whose tenure witnessed a bitter infighting among leaders especially after the 2009 Lok Sabha debacle, on Thursday apologised for any mistakes or wrong decisions during his term. "There may have
Congress MPs from Telangana region on Thursday alleged that police entered the girls hostel of Osmania University in Hyderabad and molested some of the students and appealed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi to direct the
Bollywood star Katrina Kaif has fallen in love with various Indian languages. The actress, who is yet to get her Hindi dialect right, is already leaping across other languages as she has fallen in love
Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan's latest movie My Name Is Khan is all set to be dubbed in German and Turkish to have a wider reach. That's not all, the movie will soon be released with
US President Barack Obama On Thursday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and condemned last week's terror blast in Pune that has claimed 11 lives. In the brief telephonic conversation, Obama condoled the loss of
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