A first year engineering student was hospitalised after a brutal assault by four seniors as part of ragging at a government-run university campus here, police said on Friday.

As the tussle seeking disclosure of names of people who have stashed black money abroad continues in Supreme Court, the Finance Ministry says it has 'no authentic figures' about the quantum of money deposited in Swiss banks.

The committee that probed the Mangalore air crash last year was informed by a number of senior pilots that many of them (pilots) have taken a nap during flights or have seen other crew members dozing off for a while. Sleep for flight crew during flights is strictly prohibited under Indian aviation rules.

The eagerly awaited launch of mobile television services in the country may be delayed further even as the Union information and broadcasting ministry has sought a meeting urgently with the department of telecom to sort out “issues” related to launch of the service.

British secretary of state for communities and local government Eric Pickles, who is currently in India on a three-day visit, has criticised the French for the ban that has been imposed on the wearing of the burqa or niqab (veil) in that country.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the alleged irregularities in awarding contracts related to the Commonwealth Games, has served notice to the former chairman of the Organising Committee (OC), Suresh Kalmadi. He has been summoned under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) for alleged violations of foreign exchange rules.

A fast-track court in Kolkata on Thursday ordered to frame industrialist Ashok Todi, his brother Pradip, their relative Anil Saraogi and their middleman Syed Mohiuddin, alias Pappu, for trial on abetment to suicide, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy charges for allegedly driving computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman to end his life.

Would architects of the distinction of Dr Charles Correa and Habib Rehman and the famous historian Prof. Narayani Gupta seek out a job vacancy by reading through the pages of employment newspaper Rozgar Samachar?

Chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday exhorted all the separatist leaders to follow Maulana Abbas Hussain Ansari’s lead to exhibit courage and come forward for dialogue — the only way out for resolution of Kashmir issue. He was talking to media on the sidelines of a function at Sher-i-Kashmir Police Training Academy at Udhampur.

Mounting pressure on the government to set up a special investigating team to probe the stashing of black money abroad, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Centre’s proposal to create an “in-house” body for better coordination among its different agencies, saying these agencies had been “sleeping” on the issue for more than two years.