Facing intense opposition from within and outside, government on Tuesday refused to give a go-ahead to commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal, a genetically-modified version of the vegetable that is said to be more resistant to
Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore has declined to file an FIR against Utsav Sharma who had attacked him with a penknife outside the court on Monday in Panchkula, police said. Meanwhile, more details have emerged
Indian scientists have discovered a natural tunnel near the equator of the Moon, which is even bigger than that discovered by the Japanese, says A S Arya, scientist SF of Ahmedabad-based Space Application Centre. Arya
A fresh avalanche hit Kashmir Valley on Tuesday, killing an army jawan in Kupwara district, a day after 17 armymen met a similar fate during a winter warfare training exercise. The avalanche hit Tangdhar, 145
Rattled by the spate of honour killings in northern states, the UPA government is preparing a legislative route to amend Indian Penal Code (IPC) and provide a deterrent punishment against khap panchayats, which order death
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday said her government has asked the MCD to remove the illegal mobile towers across the city but told it to take all care to see that people do
In the worst-ever snowslide in recent years in Kashmir, 17 soldiers were killed and an equal number injured when an avalanche slammed into them during their winter warfare training on steep slopes of a ski
Former Tony Blair aide Alastair Campbell broke down on live television on Sunday as he defended the former British PM's 'honour' over the Iraq war. In an extraordinary performance on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show,
Aradhana, the sole eye witness to Ruchika Girhotra s molestation, on Monday strongly condemned the attack on former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore outside a district court here asked people to desist from taking law into
A Constitution bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday set aside an act legislated by the state Assembly and a subsequent 2007 government order providing 4 per cent reservation to 15 groups belonging
Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika molestation case, was on Monday attacked when a student of the prestigious NID posing as a journalist and said to have a pyschological disorder stabbed him
An ordinary loaf which very few poor people in the country can afford can still be made available to them if it is wrapped in a single-sheet newspaper. Sounds strange? A senior human rights activist
Congress on Monday refused to read any political overtures in the meeting between NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray in Mumbai, saying it was to ensure conduct of a hassle-free IPL.
The Delhi High Court on Monday sentenced the prime convict in the 2002 Maulana Azad Medical College student rape case to life imprisonment.Observing that the accused, Rahul, had acted "not only as a beast but
The UPA government may have credited Sant Singh Chatwal with working tirelessly to protect India's interests in the US to justify his selection for Padma Bhushan but the preceding dispensations in Delhi kept the controversial
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
Branding terror groups operating in Pakistan as "dark forces", Government on Sunday vowed to overcome their threats to this country "at all costs" and got full backing of the Chief Ministers who were on the
NCP supremo and Union Minister Sharad Pawar met Bal Thackeray tonight and made an appeal to the Shiv Sena chief to withdraw the Sena threat to Australian players' participation in the third edition of the
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed concern over the recent attacks on girl students of the north eastern region in New Delhi and said stern action would be taken against the culprits to prevent such
Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress president Mamata Banerjee may have had young Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in her mind when she said a person from Uttar Pradesh will be the future of the nation. Without
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