Indian Air Force vice-chief Air Marshal N.A.K. Browne will be the next chief of the IAF, the government announced on Friday. He will take over as the Chief of Air Staff on July 31, 2011 when the current chief Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik retires. Air Marshal Browne’s tenure as the IAF chief will be up to December 31, 2013, IAF officers said.

The Bihar state Election Commission has warned ministers, legislators and MPs not to influence the ongoing counting of votes in the panchayat (local bodies) polls, officials said on Saturday.

Holding that the husband could not be allowed to subjugate wife only because he is physically strong, the Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence to a sex maniac from Chhattisgarh for strangling his wife to death after she refused to oblige him with cohabitation on his persistent demands.

Bihar deputy chief minister S.K. Modi on Saturday demanded that the Centre should ensure 'automatic inclusion' of Mahadalits in the nation-wide survey of BPL families.

IT’S NOW two decades since it happened but the horror haunts me still. It seems like last night, though it happened on the night of May 21, 1991. Congress senior leader G.K. Moopanar and his political pupil Jayanthi Natarajan were bending over the crumpled body lying face down. Moopanar hesitantly tried turning the body to see the face,

Backing Rahul Gandhi's allegations about police atrocities on Greater Noida villagers, the NCW on Saturday recommended a CBI probe "as soon as possible" into the incidents."I request a CBI inquiry as soon as possible so that evidence is not destroyed," acting NCW chairperson Yasmeen Abrar told reporters here.

Bihar’s embattled cooperative minister Ramadhar Singh of the BJP, who faces charges of being a proclaimed absconder for 16 years in a chargesheeted case, was out of the state Cabinet on Thursday after governor Devanand Konwar accepted his resignation that came recommended by chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Amid different views expressed by the law ministry and the Attorney General on the issue of Army chief's age, defence minister A.K. Antony on Friday maintained silence on it, saying whenever the government took a view, it would be announced.

Bihar’s embattled cooperative minister Ramadhar Singh of the BJP, who faces charges of being a proclaimed absconder for 16 years in a chargesheeted case, was out of the state Cabinet on Thursday after governor Devanand Konwar accepted his resignation that came recommended by chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Embarrassed over the goof up in the list of wanted accused, the CBI on Friday withdrew the list of accused for whom Interpol Red Corner Notice had been given as those wanted by the agency in connection with other cases.