The much-awaited talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the separatist outfits in Jammu and Kashmir took place on Tuesday. Earlier on Monday, the Prime Minister had pledged his government’s commitment to implement the recommendations of the five working groups he had formed after three round table conferences held in 2006 and 2007.

The parliamentary standing committee on science and environment on Tuesday discussed the controversial Nuclear Liability Bill in view of the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict.
In the committee’s first meeting on the Nuclear Liability Bill, its members raised questions over the Rs 500 crores cap proposed on compensation to be paid by the operator in the event of an accident involving an atomic plant.

Refuting charges that the probe of India’s premier investigating into the Bhopal gas tragedy was “influenced”, former CBI director Joginder Singh on Tuesday said that there was “no pressure” on the agency at all.

The spurt in cases of dalit atrocities in Uttar Pradesh has started giving anxious moments to the ruling BSP government in the state.
According to party sources, the BSP leadership is “deeply concerned” over the trend which, it feels, could cause irreparable damage to its base dalit vote bank. “Despite t

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Tuesday said that with “the IPL fraud”, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar’s political career has taken a major hit. Mr Thackeray claimed that the Congress is using the IPL to marginalise Mr Pawar’s influence in the national politics as well as in Maharashtra and there will be new allegations hurled at Mr Pawar every day on the behest of the Congress.

The Army on Tuesday ordered a court of inquiry to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against its engineer-in-chief, Lt. Gen. A.K. Nanda, by the wife of a subordinate officer of the rank of colonel.

Hindalco, the Rs 60,722 crore flagship company of the Aditya Birla group said that it is scouting for copper mines and was close to getting one.
While, he declined to reveal any details, Mr D. Bhattacharya, MD of Hindalco said 40 per cent of their requirement of concentrate comes from their own mines and they w

Union law and justice minister M. Veerappa Moily said on Tuesday, a day after the Bhopal gas tragedy judgment, that the case against former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson was not over and that he can be brought back and tried. He, however, refused to discuss the implications of the verdict on the current debate over the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill.

Indian’s have always been notorious gold bugs, but the fever now seems to be spreading. As stock markets, banks and even governments wobble, more and more investors are finding solace in gold.

The Delhi government is planning to draft the new Municipal Corporation of Delhi Act in six months through which it intends to end the inspector raj in sanction of building plans. The new law, which will replace the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957, will enforce time-bound completion of development work.