Amid inconclusive discussion and subsidy concerns raised by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, the Union Cabinet on Tuesday deferred a decision on the National Food Security Bill. It, however, approved other major legislation — the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill 2010, the Public Interest

Reiterating that it was the government’s duty to provide shelter to the homeless who could not be left in the open in biting cold conditions, the Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the city government to ensure that all temporary night shelters run by it are functional.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee with BJP leaders L.K.

A senior scientist working with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has written to the Delhi police’s crime branch that a Dehradun-based former employee, who was dismissed on charges of misconduct, has been publishing classified information related to the

The AP high court on Tuesday stayed the preliminary enquiries it had previously ordered by the CBI, Enforcement Directorate, the state government and the state police against former chief minister and Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu and others.

The Delhi high court will on February 1, 2012 hear the appeals of Vikas and Vishal Yadav, serving life term in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, challenging their conviction and sentencing by the trial court .

On completion of three years in office, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has a list of ambitious schemes launched by the Congress government in the state. Though Mr Gehlot expressed confidence that the Congress would repeat

A 22-year-old woman, who works at a discotheque in Gurgaon, was allegedly abducted and raped by a cab driver at a farmhouse in south Delhi’s Mehrauli area in the early hours on Tuesday. The accused driver threw the victim out of his cab on spotting a police post and sped away.

Considered to be tough and formidable, former top cops of the Punjab police have become ticket aspirants in the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state.
As many as three former director-generals of the Punjab police had shown their

Hindu Sena supporters burn an effigy of Mohammad Afzal Guru, sentenced to death in the 2001 Parliament attack case, during a protest on the 10th anniversary of the incident in New Delhi on Tuesday.