Fighting the Congress in the family pocket-borough of Kadapa in prestigious by-elections, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy today ruled out going back to the party, saying he cannot "throw his core values" for the sake of "power and position".

Security has been beefed up in Tihar’s Jail Number 1 after former chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi was taken in a 14-day judicial custody.

Putting mind over matter is not as simple as self-improvement books may suggest. While most intelligent people have a way of managing it in life, gifted athletes do it far more often in the sporting arena.
Virender Sehwag may be credited with greater natural ability than thinking prowess but even he finds extraordinary ways to be able to overcome adverse conditions to shine in a more wholesome way with his talent.

In anticipation of what could happen on May 6, when she appears before the CBI court in connection with the 2G scam, DMK Rajya Sabha MP and the Tamil Nadu chief minister’s daughter Kanimozhi landed in Delhi on Wednesday. Her husband Aravindan and son Aditya accompanied her to the capital. She is all set to be joined by her mother Rajathi Ammal late in the night.

JVM-P chief Babulal Marandi's fast- unto-death against the state government's anti-encroachment drive entered fifth day today even as the administration appealed to him to call it off and offered to hold talks on his demand for permanent settlement of the displaced people.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement in the black money case after a marathon hearing stretching several sessions during the past six months when the government came under fire on numerous occasions for the “failure” of its agencies to investigate country’s biggest unaccounted money trail allegedly involving

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday expressed sadness over the tragic death of Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu, saying the late leader served the state with distinction and worked tirelessly to promote its interests.

Evidently acknowledging the immense political influence expatriates continue to have back home in Punjab, both Congress president Amarinder Singh and chief minister Parkash Singh Badal have hailed the success of Punjabis in the recently concluded Canadian parliamentary elections.

Two pilots working with private airlines were arrested here for allegedly procuring commercial flying licences using forged marksheets, taking the total number of people arrested in such cases to 17.

Underlining that Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, US envoy Timothy J. Roemer on Wednesday said Washington will take a "hard look" at the assistance being given to the country and pressed Islamabad to do more to bring the terrorists who attacked Mumbai to book.