Delhi Police on Wednesday arrested four more persons including two bookies and a man said to be a friend of arrested cricketer S. Sreesanth in the spot fixing case.

Five children were killed and more than half a dozen persons injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a slum area in Kareli, in Allahabad district, on Wednesday evening.

Terming “alarmist” a newspaper report that the Army had moved two units towards New Delhi in mid-January without informing the government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday that such report

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the 10th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Jaipur said, “Our country is going through difficult times ...

The MoEF has issued a showcause notification to the detergent firm, Nirma Ltd company, revoking their environment clearance to set up a cement factory at the Padhiarka village in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district. The 1.91 million tonne per annum cement factory, with its coke oven and captive power plants, was being built over the Samadhiyala reservoir which had been constructed by the government to provide water for irrigation purposes to the local farmers.

Both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the CPI on Tuesday demanded that the government should disclose the identities of those Indians who have stashed black money in Swiss banks.

The Centre is planning to reduce the strength of the security forces (paramilitary personnel) deployed in Jammu and Kashmir by 25 per cent as part of confidence-building measures to bring peace in the Valley. While the home ministry wants to reduce the paramilitary force levels in J&K, the Army feels there is no need to cut its own troop levels there.

After home minister P. Chidambaram’s letter to West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee asking the state government to disarm CPI(M) cadres left the state chief minister visibly perturbed, the home minister on Thursday wrote two more letters to Mr Bhattacharjee, this time inviting him for talks to Delhi.

The main Opposition BJP on Thursday said it was committed to formation of a Telangana state, irrespective of the suggestions given by the Justice Srikrishna Committee on the statehood demand. The party maintained that it would come out with a detailed response on the issue after the Centre holds a meeting with eight

West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday admitted receiving Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s letter and said he would send a befitting reply. At a party rally at Dum Dum, Mr Bhattacharjee claimed Mr Chidambaram had sent the letter at the behest of the Trinamul Congress. “In Delhi, Congress and Trinamul have a joint morcha and Mr Chidambaram has written this letter to please his partner,” he said.