Five corporate honchos lodged in the Tihar jail were denied bail by the Delhi high court on Monday which observed that “the gravity of the offence itself is sufficient to deny bail to the accused.”

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh's remarks that faculty of the premier IITs and IIMs are "not world class" on Tuesday prompted a retort from the teachers who termed them as "simplistic" which showed "tremendous ignorance".

Dismissing the UPA-2 report to mark two years of its completion at the Centre, the main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said the report deserves only one remark of “failed”. The party said the government had “no mission or vision” but “only commission” and the report was a “wastage of paper”.

The CPI top brass on Tuesday reviewed the drubbing of the Left in the recent Assembly elections in its stronghold of West Bengal terming it as a "serious political setback" and decided to make joint efforts to regain their lost base there.

Complimenting the Centre for not accepting Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj’s recommendation on imposing President’s Rule in the state, chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Monday said he would continue to demand the recall of the “partisan” governor. Mr Yeddyurappa also thanked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, home minister P.

Hitting at environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh for saying Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are not world-class, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said India can have such institutions only when it has world-class ministers.

The BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government continues to stick to a 1997 order which discriminates between the general category government officers and staff on the one side and those belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward communities on the other when it comes to holding an officer accountable after departmental inquiry.

The Congress in Uttar Pradesh is searching for an OBC leader who will help the party make a dent in the Samajwadi Party’s OBC votebank.

A Canadian-origin pilot of a private air charter company, who was to fly BJP chief Nitin Gadkari to Mumbai, was arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly trying to enter the airport with a cartridge in his baggage.

Once again, the girls outshone boys in the Class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education results declared on Monday. The results were declared across the country on Monday except Patna region, with the total pass percentage standing at 81.71 per cent, an increase of 1.84 per cent over last year. Result for Patna region will be declared on May 27.