Several NGOs working for the cause of the Bhopal gas victims on Wednesday called for immediate scrapping of the recommendations of the Peer Review Committee set up for remediation of toxic contamination in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in the state capital and demanded reconstitution of this committee to ensure that there were no members in this panel with conflict of interests.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Thursday started an inquiry into the crash of a small medical ambulance aircraft in a residential area here that left 10 persons including seven on board dead.

Defending his ministerial colleague Jairam Ramesh for his remarks on IITs and IIMs faculty members, water resources and minority affairs minister Salman Khursheed on Wednesday said, his views were just informal academic exchange and this should not be discouraged.

Ten persons including all seven onboard a small medical ambulance aircraft were killed when the flight to Delhi from Patna crashed into roof of two houses in bad weather and caught fire in a residential area in Faridabad's Sector 22.

Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s wife Surinder Kaur Badal passed away on Tuesday afternoon after a two-year battle with cancer at Chandigarh’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research.
The chief minister, his son deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal, daughter Preneet Kaur and daughter-in-law

Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti has dubbed the ruling National Conference (NC) as a political deadwood and urged the people to weed it out which, she insisted, was in their interest.

The Centre is believed to have written to the Karnataka government on Tuesday raising issues of corruption, illegal mining and protection of minorities, based on observations made by Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj.
The letter, reportedly dispatched from the home ministry late Tuesday evening, has highlighted issues raised by

Defence minister A.K. Antony on Wednesday said the audacious terror attack on a military base in Pakistan was a matter of concern for India.

After the 100 per cent success rate of the last three years, only 24 of 30 students of Super 30, Bihar's free coaching centre, have cracked the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) in 2011.

India on Wednesday said the terror attack on a naval base in Karachi was a cause of serious concern, particularly with regards to the safety of nuclear arsenal in Pakistan, but it does not want to overreact.