Under mounting pressure from the Opposition parties, women organisations, student forums and intellectual groups, Orissa agriculture minister and senior BJD leader Pradeep Maharathy stepped down from his post.

A pregnant woman on Thursday gave birth to a baby girl on the road after being denied admission by a state-run hospital.

With four more babies dying, the number of crib deaths in Malda district hospital rose to 15 in the past 48 hours even as a high-level task force for mother and child care set up by chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited the hospital on Thursday to assess the situation.

The Andaman and nicobar police has questioned two persons, including the taxi driver who drove the Observor journalist through the jungles on the pretext of showing him Jarawa tribal people and also arrange for their photography discreetly.

The CBI has so far registered eight cases in connection with the irregularities in implementation of the multi-crore NRHM scam in Uttar Pradesh. It has booked Pradeep Shukla, the former principal secretary, family welfare department, and five others in the case.

With the judicial inquiry commission probing the Forbesganj police firing on poor Muslims failing to submit its report within the stipulated six months, the Bihar government has extended the single-member panel’s term by a year.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday frankly accepted the title of Lakhpati. As the long list of followers is inching closer to 1 lakh mark, Mr Abdullah wrote on the micro blogging site, “I am almost a Lakhpati”.
He is likely to touch the milestone shortly. The list of his followers have already crossed 99,900 mark.

The Indian railways can be expected to make production of proof of identity mandatory for all passengers travelling in air-conditioned classes anywhere in the country starting February 15.

The Assam police has embarked upon an ambitious plan of sending 200 former militants for spiritual, behavioural and vocational rehabilitation training at the Art of Living in Bengaluru.

In what has been seen as a rare action, a team of Japanese officials on Wednesday started exhuming a six-decade- old war cemetery to take away the remains of its 11 soldiers buried here during World War II.