Congress on Thursday attacked Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati for dubbing Rahul Gandhi's dharna in Greater Noida as "mean theatrics", saying she was acting out of "frustration".

The IAF has decided to station Garud Commandos, the special force unit of IAF, in MI-17 helicopters deployed in insurgency-hit Bastar region in Chhattisgarh, apparently to counter Naxal threats, sources in air wing said here on Wednesday.

Telugu superstar and Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) president Chiranjeevi on Wednesday said that the merger of his party with the congress would be completed by the end of this month.

The National Human Rights Commission, which has received complaints of human rights violations in the Bhatta Parsaul village in Greater Noida, will send an investigative team to the village, a statement said on Thursday.

India’s only Maoist-turned-MP Kames-hwar Baitha had the bitter experience of the typical violence of the Left-wing rebels when they blew up his ancestral house in Jharkhand’s Palamu district three days after he was released from a jail in Bihar on bail.

Now that all the exit polls have predicted the exit of Left Front, the million-dollar question being asked is: what role will Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee play in the changed circumstances?

Notwithstanding Pakistan's denials, India on Thursday said underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the main accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, resides in Karachi where he spends most of his time.

The top 25 candidates after the Civil Services Examination 2010 results were declared Wednesday consist of 20 men and five women, 15 of whom are engineers, five belong to the commerce, management, humanities, science and social sciences streams, and five are from a medical sciences background. Of the top 25, eight have

The EC on Wednesday said that it is working on guidelines for the electronic media to ensure a level playing field for political parties that own television channels and those that cannot boast of having one.

The government on Thursday said it was looking at "bio-remediation method" to "clean up" 350 tonnes of toxic waste lying in the now defunct Union carbide factory in Bhopal.