In a significant development which may cause embarrassment to Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and his allies from the Congress party, a delegation of about fifty state Congress leaders and activists have met Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and some other senior ministers and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi to demand dismissal of the Omar Abdullah government and imposition of Governor’s rule “to save the state from further ruin.”

The MCD contractors, who have been on strike since July 21 protesting against non-payment of their dues, on Wednesday threatened that they will involve their family members, including children, if the dues were not cleared within four days.

The DGCA may soon levy restrictions on the passenger load carried in certain types of aircraft landing at some of the 11 critical airports in the country in case corrective measures recommended by the DGCA are not carried out either by the airport operators or concerned state governments.

His voice proved to be quite a Pied Piper of Hamelin that drove away all budding singers to Mumbai and try their luck in Bollywood music industry. Armed with a rich baritone and a crystal-clear diction, Abhas Kumar Ganguly aka apna Kishoreda was synonymous with flawless singing. On Wednesday August 4, the rest of India along with the culture capital Kolkata celebrated his 81st birth anniversary amidst much fanfare.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday called on state governments to take coordinated action with the Centre to control rising prices, saying it was a joint responsibility of the nation’s political leadership.

An attempt by the Ghaziabad district judge to “interfere” in the trial proceedings in a special CBI court under his jurisdiction in the infamous provident fund scam against six former judges, including the three who had retired from Allahabad high court, has landed him in soup with the Supreme Court issuing notice to him asking to explain the reasons.

After much delay, the state government has finally sent a part of the Sourin Roy Committee report of the Stephen Court tragedy to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). The committee has mentioned irregularities from the KMC’s part. Mayor Sovan Chatterjee has expressed his displeasure on not receiving the full report. He

Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the CWG organising committee, has not been seen in Parliament after corruption allegations over the Games started escalating.

In a major move that could liberalise adoption laws in the country, giving women equal rights in guardianship and adoption of children, the parliamentary standing committee on law and justice has unanimously recommended a bill which seeks to amend two acts in this regard.

The junior doctors called an indefinite cease work at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital from Wednesday afternoon after three of them along with a security guard were beaten up during a rampage by the angry family members of a deceased patient alleging medical negligence.