A foreign country, which now has good relations with India, spread canards on the death of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in Tashkent nearly four decades ago, intelligence reports produced on Wednesday by the PMO before the Central Information Commission indicate.

The crime situation in Uttar Pradesh continues to deteriorate at an alarming speed. After a spate of rape cases on Monday, Tuesday proved to be no better.

American Airlines has been asked to pay Rs 40,000 by a consumer forum as compensation to a family whose travel plans went awry because of a flight delay by the airline in 2007.

In the wake of the Supreme Court denying bail to Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, her father and DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Tuesday had a tearful meeting with her at Tihar Jail. His third wife Rajathi Ammal and son and Union minister M.K. Alagiri accompanied him. This is the octogenarian’s second visit to Tihar within a month’s time.

The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) may soon host the Indo-US energy centre. Farooq Abdullah, minister for new and renewable energy, has promised to clear the project, said vice chancellor PK Abdul Azis late on Tuesday.

A group of Kashmiri expatriates from both halves of the divided state living in Britain has cautioned that the upcoming elections in PoK are meant only to elect a local government and will have no bearing on the political status of the territory or the state of J&K as a whole.

Medical services were hit in Jharkhand on Wednesday as more than 2,000 government doctors went on strike demanding raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 and more promotion avenues.

Under intense pressure from political parties to introduce Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) along with EVM, the Election Commission of India has decided to conduct field trials in simulated elections at five places on July 24.

The Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday said it will provide to an RTI applicant the correspondence between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former telecom minister A. Raja in connection with 2G spectrum allocation.

The NIA on Monday filed a chargesheet accusing Hindu “extremists” Swami Aseemanand, Sunil Joshi (now dead), Lokesh Sharma, Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalasangra of criminal conspiracy resulting in t