In what is being billed as the biggest crackdown on illegal mining in Aravalli Hills under Bharatpur district in Rajasthan, the police arrested over 100 people and seized a number of equipment and vehicles used in the illegal mining activities. Nature enthusiasts expressed their concern over the unabated illegal miming in restricted Aravalli Hills.

In a huge setback to an Indian couple battling for custody of their children, the Norwegian authorities on Thursday said they are not going ahead with a deal to hand over the kids to their uncle due to conflicts” in the family.

The Orissa Legislative Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution appealing the Maoists to release the two Italian citizens held hostages by them since March 14.

In a huge setback to an Indian couple battling for custody of their children, Norwegian authorities on Thursday said they are not going ahead with a deal to hand over the kids to their uncle in view of “conflicts” in the family.

After Karnataka, BJP was hit by another porngate scandal in the Assembly where two ruling party MLAs in Gujarat allegedly watched obscene pictures of women prompting the Speaker to order a probe and also target the media.

After Karnataka’s “porngate”, a similar scandal hit the BJP in the Gujarat Assembly, where two party MLAs were allegedly caught watching obscene pictures, prompting the Speaker to seize their tablet devices and order a probe.

The six-day hostage drama in Orissa took a new turn on Wednesday with Dandapani Mohanty, one of the three names proposed by the rebels to act as interlocutors, suggesting the state government to choose one from among Kobad Ghandy, Amit Bagchi and Narayan Sanyal to assist in the negotiation process.

The cloud of uncertainty over release of two abducted Italians — Bausco Paolo and Claudio Colangelo — persisted on Tuesday as the government and rebels could not decide upon the names of the interlocutors.

The new railway minister, Mr Mukul Roy, who had preferred to attend a Mamata rally, rather than visiting a train accident site at Guwahati during his tenure as minister of state for railways on July 11 last year, blamed the van driver for accident.

After the through drubbing of Indian cricket team in Australia and Indian batsmen’s perennial problem to deal with fast and bouncy tracks on foreign tours, the desire to make lively pitches in India could find an answer in the soil of two nondescript villages of Haryana.