Passengers of Air India and Kingfisher Airlines using Delhi and Hyderabad airports from June 1 can breathe easier now, with senior officials of the GMR group expressing confidence on Monday evening that the process of payment of arrears by these two airlines to the two consortia will start. So far as Air India is concerned, the

A merchant navy officer from Jammu and Kashmir has gone missing from his tanker vessel since May 27, three days after leaving an Australian port for Singapore, his family said on Tuesday.

After framing strict guidelines on phone-tapping by the central agencies, the Centre has convened a meeting of chief secretaries and DGPs of all states on Tuesday to discuss putting in place a heavily-guarded mechanism to curb illegal phone-tapping and prevent misuse by state agencies and service provides by imposing heavy

India and Germany on Tuesday signed four pacts to expand their cooperation in the fields of education and research, as also high-tech areas like nuclear physics as the two countries resolved to push for reforms of the United Nations Security Council.

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna held separate talks on Monday with his counterparts from Germany and Egypt in which bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest were discussed.
The meeting with German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle came on the eve of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to India.

India and Germany today reviewed the security situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserting that terrorism will have to be fought "on all fronts and not selectively".

The Union home ministry is studying the Delhi government’s response on the findings made by the Shunglu Committee related to bungling in the Commonwealth Games projects.

The Prime Minister should be excluded from the purview of the proposed Lokpal, yoga guru Baba Ramdev said on Tuesday. "It is a very complicated question whether the Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India should be brought under Lokpal bill or not.

There was no relief for Rajya Sabha DMK MP Kanimozhi, arrested and chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, with the Delhi high court on Monday reserving its order on her bail plea.

The external affairs ministry should disclose all information related to the Bhopal Gas tragedy, including the communication exchanged between it and CBI on the extradition of the then Union carbide chief Warren Anderson, the Central Information Commission has held.