A woman research officer with the department of ayurveda, yoga & naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy (Ayush), under the health ministry, got relief from the Delhi high court which has directed the government to constitute a “proper” committee to inquire into her allegation of sexual harassment by a senior colleague.

The Delhi government and Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission continue to be at loggerhead over the issue of the new power tariff order. The Delhi government in an apparent bid to strengthen the demands of the private power distribution companies (discoms) on Wednesday listed several reasons in support of power tariff hike, which included uninterrupted power supply during this year’s Commonwealth Games.

A young man was allegedly pushed to death from his residence by a neighbour in the Paharganj area on Tuesday night over a trivial issue.
The police officials said the deceased, identified as Dhirender Choudhary, lived along with his nephew Vipin Kumar on the second-floor of a building near Ramdwara General Market in Paharganj.

The Union home ministry will soon address concerns relating to the possible misuse of the column “nationality as declared” in the National Population Register (NPR) form during the Census 2011 exercise in a meeting convened with chief secretaries of all states. The Bharatiya Janata Party fears that the same can be misused by illegal Bangladeshi migrants to gain citizenship.

Confusion prevailed in the food ministry over the scheduled meeting of an empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on food on Thursday in the absence of food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, recuperating from a minor surgery in Mumbai.

India is likely to ask Pakistan to disclose the whereabouts of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and alleged mastermind of the 26/11 terror attack Hafiz Muhammad Saeed at the time when convicted Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab along with nine other terrorists set sail from Karachi on a boat to unleash terror in Mumbai. The issue is expected to

Besides trade and culture, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse exchanged views on a host of geo-strategic issues.
They agreed to promote dialogue on security and defence issues of relevance to the bilateral relationship, and enhance high-level military exchanges and training of m

For the second time in a week, leaders of India and Pakistan will gather at the venue of a multilateral meeting without them being accused of indulging in mutual recriminations or letting their public spat affect the dynamics of summitry.

With a former CBI official indicating that the agency was under pressure from the ministry of external affairs not to seek Mr Anderson’s extradition, the ministry lobbed the ball back into the CBI’s court on Wednesday. A senior official in the ministry said here that it had approached the premier investigating agency as recently as 2008 for more information so that the matter of extradition of Warren Anderson could be taken up with the US government.

International rating agency Standard & Poor’s on Wednesday lowered Bharti Airtel’s rating due to the large debt which the company had taken to finance its acquisition of Zain’s African assets. Bharti’s shares, however, were up by five per cent on the stock market and was one of the top gainers.