The Congress on Monday indicated it is not in favour of any change of guard in Jammu and Kashmir and is fully behind chief minister Omar Abdullah. “The situation is tough there and it will be tackled carefully. The Centre is closely watching the situation there. Congress fully backs the Omar Abdullah government in its efforts to bring normalcy there,” AICC general secretary in-charge for Jammu and Kashmir, Prithviraj Chavan told reporters here.

In an unusual development which may affect the Congress-Trinamul Congress alliance in the state, Youth Congress workers were attacked and prevented from holding a rally at Khejuri near Nandigram in East Midnapore not by the workers of the rival CP(M) but allegedly by those of the Trinamul Congress.

Buoyed by a string of successful launches of foreign satellites, Indian space scientists plan to tap the emerging market in Africa in order to secure commercial contracts for manufacture and launch of satellites.

Pakistani spy Kashif Ali, arrested in Chandigarh, has been found to be in possession of a PAN (permanent account number) card issued by the income tax department and is believed to have been paying his taxes to establish his Indian alias, Pawan Kumar.

The Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh chose to downplay the attack on UP minister Nand Gopal Nandi on Monday.
Seven hours after the incident, ADG Brij Lal said that the police had no clue about the motive behind the crime or the identity of the criminals. He denied media reports t

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice S.H.

The Congress on Monday said it was for the government to take congnisance about Army Chief Gen V.K. Singh’s comments that appeared to be critical of the political leadership in dealing with the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

BJP president Nitin Gadkari, under fire from the Congress and other Opposition parties over his intemperate political rhetoric in several recent instances, now faced criticism on the same count from a senior leader of his own party.

The Congress is clearly in a fix over how to deal with Mr Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy. This was clearly discernible during the course of the regular congress briefing at the AICC headquarters here in the capital.

Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, yesterday’s child prodigy, is all grown up! At 22, he will join the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology at Powai in Mumbai next week.
Taking up this assignment ends the confusion in the young professor’s mind on whether to set up a computer lab at home in Patna or to migrate to Waterloo University in C