Punjab’s Youth Congress chief Ravneet Bittu, who is also widely acknowledged as Mr Rahul Gandhi’s man here, on Sunday launched an indefinite hungerstrike to force government action to curb the prolife

Exquisite scarves, crafted from the softest possible wool by a firm in India’s very own knitwear capital Ludhiana, are set to adorn scores of celebrity guests and some very lucky others at London’s We

Showing the way out of yet another potentially explosive situation, environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday advocated “pausing” all further progress on Maharashtra’s Jaitapur nuclear power project to give the government time to formulate a transparent nuclear energy policy.

An Akali Dal MLA's nephew and sitting party councilor shot and killed a leading hotelier in full public view in Jalandhar city late Wednesday night.
Prince Makkar, who represents the ruling party in the Jalandhar city corporation and is a nephew of Akali le-gislator Sarabjit Singh Mak-kar, shot Grand Hotel proprietor

A convicted rapist on parole and his friend battered to death two young widows in Haryana’s Bhiwani district late on Sunday night.
The police arrested Naresh Kumar who is serving jail time for rape and Subhash after they attacked and killed Suman (35) and Shakuntala (40) in full view of residents in Bhiwani’s Ranila Village. Eyewitnesses told the police the two men began thrashing the women with wooden staffs and kept battering them until they fell dead.

Evidently inspired by the huge success of Anna Hazare and his hunger strikers at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, a little known Punjabi politician has perched himself on a tall eucalyptus and refuses to climb down until his demands are met by the government.

Suspected “contract killers” killed a senior leader of the politically influential Namdhari sect in Ludhiana on Tuesday morning. The police believes the killing might be linked to a succession struggle going on within the sect.

Furthering the goodwill generated during Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Ali Gilani’s visit to witness the ICC World Cup semi-final at Mohali, India on Monday released and repatriated 39 Pakistanis who were held on various charges, including espionage.

Gopal Dass, an Indian border farmer who was condemned to a lifetime of incarceration in Pakistan after he was arrested on the wrong side of the India-Pakistan border 27 years ago, returned home on Thursday to a reunion with his long-lost siblings that was choking with emotion.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who took a calculated risk in inviting his Pakistani counterpart, Yousaf Raza Gilani, emerged as triumphant as Team India on Wednesday evening.