A nine-seater aircraft with seven persons on board — two doctors, a 19-year-old patient in critical condition, two relatives of the patient, and two pilots — crashed late on Wednesday night over Parvatiya Colony, a residential area in Faridabad, Haryana.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) on Wednesday finalised its recommendations on the proposed amendments to the Land Acquisition Act. If the government agrees to the suggestions and the Parliament passes them, the land owners would be entitled to get six times the registered value of their land as

The Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh has decided to embarrass the Congress by raising the issue of Muslim reservation on the eve of Assembly elections in UP.

Even after repeated attempts for a week, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has not been able to work out any formula to declare his 18-member council of ministers in Assam. This has not only increased the nervousness of

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said the row over the issue of the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) will not have any impact on the ties between his party and the Congress in the state.

The special CBI court hearing the 2G spectrum case on Tuesday rejected the bail applications of Shahid Usman Balwa, promoter of DB Realty, and his cousin Asif Balwa and Rajeev Agarwal, both directors of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd, for alleged involvement in the scam.

The CPI has termed the drubbing of the Left in the recent Assembly elections in West Bengal as a “serious political setback’’ which calls for introspection and the need to win back the confidence of people who’ve been alienated during the span of the 34 year long rule of the Left Front in Bengal.

The 26/11 trial in the United States in which US national and LeT operative David Coleman Headley has implicated Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), for providing support to the LeT in carrying out the 2008 terror attack is expected to find mention in the talks between Union home minister P. Chidam-baram and US

Recent statements and remarks by some Congress leaders are creating confusion within the party which is finding it difficult to either defend or distance itself from them.

Setting at rest speculation about an imminent realignment of political forces, AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday called on DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi, who was in New Delhi to meet daughter Kanimozhi, now in jail as an accused in the 2G scam.