Major FM channels in Mumbai have agreed to play Marathi songs on their channels following a warning by the Shiv Sena. Sena chief Bal Thackeray had given all FM players in Mumbai a seven-day deadline to start airing Marathi songs on July 11.

The CPI(M) on Friday refused point blank to obey an order from the Union environment ministry to close down a controversial mangrove theme park which it runs at Pappinesserry in Kannur.

Security forces in an encounter with the Maoists killed a person whom the locals claimed to be “an innocent villager.” The police, however, alleged that the deceased person was “with the Maoists.”

A Trinamul Congress leader, Nishkanta Mandol, was killed by the Maoists in 2009 after he failed to return arms and show accounts for spending Rs 13 lakhs that the Maoists had given him to spend for the Nandigram movement. This has recently been revealed during an investigation by the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department, (CID).

Justice K.T. Thomas committee appointed by the Supreme Court go into the issue of fixed tenure to state police DGPs in the light of top court’s order on the police reforms is expected to submit its report soon.

In a damning indication of the role of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai, Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley has told his interrogators that Pakistan’s ISI had paid between Rs 20-25 lakhs to the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba to purchase a boat which terrorists used to travel from Karachi to the

Regretting that home secretary G.K. Pillai was not “defended” by external affairs minister S.M. Krishna after Mr Pillai was bracketed with JuD chief and an accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack Hafiz Saeed by Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi, the main Opposition BJP on Friday demanded that the government should

Diesel will cost Rs 2.50 less per litre in Delhi as the state government on Friday rolled back VAT on the fuel from the existing 20 per cent to 12.5 per cent.
The decision will help contain inflationary trends and bring relief to the common man, Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit said while announcing the rollback.

The Enforcement Directorate, probing the multi-crore hawala racket involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and his former Cabinet colleagues, on Friday attached properties of his two former ministers in Jharkhand.

Five Army officers, including a colonel and two majors, four soldiers and two civilian collaborators have been chargesheeted by the J&K police in the alleged April 30 staged gunfight killing of three local youth in Machael sector, along the LoC.