orporation Bank today said it had not extended overdraft facility of Rs 7.94 crore to a company owned by Robert Vadra and has no role in the raging controversy over his land deal with realty major DLF.

High drama unfolded at the airport here today when the pilot of an Abu Dhabi-Kochi Air India flight pressed the hijack button in panic after passengers created a ruckus in the cockpit following diversion of the plane to Thiruvananthapuram.

A combative Sonia Gandhi today sought to deflect attacks on the Congress over corruption by accusing the BJP of running corrupt governments in several states, affirming that her party has done more to fight this “cancer” than others.

Two were charred two death and six others were injured when a passenger train caught fire at the railway station here on Tuesday afternoon.

Total food security could become increasingly difficult to achieve in the long term unless governments across the world bring in more natural processes to agricultural systems.

Prime Minister Manmohan Sigh on Tuesday pledged $50 million — around `270 crores — towards protecting biodiversity.

Taking a tough stand against die-hard loyalist of former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, the ruling party expelled former Union minister V. Dhananjaya Kumar for six years on Tuesday.

Steel tycoon Sajjan Jindal-led Bellary-based JSW Steel Ltd and South West Mining Ltd (SWML) paid `40 crores kickbacks to former Karnataka chief minister B.S.

Experts at the ongoing CoP-11 here have come out with out-of-the-box ideas to tackle climate change and global warming, and protect biological diversity.

How large or big is the biological diversity of the earth?