Le Meridien hotel chef Devinder Kumar prepares to make the world’s largest genetically modified-free “baigan ka bharta” as part of the Greenpeace campaign against the clearance given to GM crops in In

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday held a meeting with BJP parliamentary party chief L.K. Advani in an effort to end the impasse over appointment of Gujarat Lokayukta. Parliament proceedings were stalled over

Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh’s associates maintain that his health condition is genuinely poor. “This year alone Mr Singh has been to Singapore a couple of times for regular checkups and was again set to go there in a day or two. He just has one donor kidney and is under intensive medication,

The Indian Airforce lost yet another of its technically upgraded MiG-21 BIS fighters on Tuesday morning when the jet on its final landing approach to the Air Force base at Ambala, evidently lost power and crashed into paddy fields near Rajpura on the Delhi-Amritsar Highway.

Former SP leader Amar Singh was “fully aware” of the conspiracy that the then BJP MPs were being bribed to abstain from voting in the 2008 trust vote in Lok Sabha but didn’t inform the law enforcement agencies. His arrest on

Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, on Tuesday afternoon asked Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati to apologise for making personal attacks against him.

The BJP on Tuesday said arrest of former SP leader Amar Singh in the cash-for-vote scam is “a step in the right direction”. However, it termed the arrest of its former MPs “completely malafide”.

Even as Lionel Messi landed in Dhaka, it was failure of the Teesta accord, which dominated newspapers and the audio visual channels. Some local Bengali papers went on to describe the West Bengal chief minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, as a “drama queen.”

Terming the allegations made by BJP and other Opposition parties against it in the wake of former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh in the cash-for-vote scam as “baseless”, the Congress on Tuesday said the due process of law is being followed in the case. It said that the arrest of Mr Singh and others was the culmination of a “very closely monitored” Delhi police investigation by the Supreme Court.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that Bangladesh was in the midst of a major socio-economic transformation. “Your economy has witnessed steady growth during the last several years and you have achieved commendable successes in eradicating poverty, hunger, illiteracy and