The Pakistan Navy on Tuesday formally received two modified P3C Orion aircraft acquired from the US.

June 1: Old habits die hard. So it came as no surprise when Union railway minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee decided to skip the Cabinet meeting here on Tuesday even though she’d returned to the Capital after a long gap. She, however, did go to the PM’s 7, Race Course Road residence in the evening for the release of the UPA-1 report card.

The commuters had a tough time getting Metro on Dwarka-Noida line on Monday as the trains were delayed by at least one hour during the morning rush hour due to technical glitches.

INDIAN SCULPTOR Anish Kapoor’s “untitled” creation fetched £550,000 at ART HK 10, an international art fair in Hong Kong.

Claiming that constitution of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was one of the high points of the UPA-2’s first year in office, the government on Tuesday said, the first batch of Unique ID numbers to Indian residents will be rolled out this year only.

Over 300 medical students and some junior doctors of the Safdarjung Hospital went on hunger strike Tuesday to protest alleged lack of water supply, electricity and unhygenic conditions in the hostel.

In a major breakthrough, British researchers have developed a blood test that can detect cancer even before it develops and can be diagnosed with tests in use at present.

The UPA-2 report card released on Tuesday said that as part of the social welfare measures of the government, the focus was on rural housing, drinking water, roads and electricity besides supporting the crippling farm sector.

Tighter norms for offshore drilling — almost a certainty after the Gulf of Mexico disaster — may hit Chennai-based drilling major Aban Offshore.
This would be a double hit for the company which had lost Aban Pearl — a drilling ship — in Venezuela last month to an accident.

In what has been seen as growing animosity between the two neighbouring states, the Meghalaya police on Monday registered a case against the Assam government on the basis of two FIRs on the Langpi fir