The village of Bhatta is coming to terms with its losses. A fortnight after facing the wrath of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), the majority of men, women and children in this 2,700-strong village are too scared to return to their homes.

Holding that the husband could not be allowed to subjugate wife only because he is physically strong, the Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence to a sex maniac from Chhattisgarh for strangling his wife to death after she refused to oblige him with cohabitation on his persistent demands.

The world’s biggest solar energy project is set to come up in Dhule, with the state Cabinet deciding to sanction crores of rupees for it.

IT’S NOW two decades since it happened but the horror haunts me still. It seems like last night, though it happened on the night of May 21, 1991. Congress senior leader G.K. Moopanar and his political pupil Jayanthi Natarajan were bending over the crumpled body lying face down. Moopanar hesitantly tried turning the body to see the face,

Putting the entire blame of the goof up in India’s “most wanted” list of terrorists on the home ministry, the main Opposition BJP on Friday demanded home minister P. Chidambaram’s resignation over the issue. Terming the incident as “very unfortunate” the party asked whether the ministry was a “post office” which passes on anything

A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was convened on Thursday to discuss Karnataka governor Hansraj Bhardwaj’s report recommending President’s Rule in the state. But it failed to arrive at a decision, as leaders also looked at the possibility of recalling the governor. It

The Danish high court has rejected main accused in the 1995 Purulia arms drop case Kim Davy’s plea that the CBI’s arrest warrant cannot be the basis for his extradition to India since it had expired. The Danish court is likely to hear India’s plea seeking extradition of Davy in the first week of July.

Rushing into damage control mode after major goof-ups in India’s list of “50 most wanted” fugitives handed over to Pakistan, an embarrassed Union home ministry said Friday the entire list was being reviewed and steps would be taken to ensure that no such mistake occurred in future.

The CBI on Friday filed its chargesheet in the agency’s probe related to the result update system contract of the Commonwealth Games naming former chairman of the Organising Committee (OC) Suresh Kalmadi as a main accused. This was the CBI’s first chargehseet, filed in a Delhi court on Friday, related to the agency’ probe into the CWG cases.

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee made history on Friday afternoon, taking the oath of office as the first woman chief minister of West Bengal. It was exactly a week after she had dethroned the CPI(M)-led Left Front, which ruled the state for the past 34 years. Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who succeeded the iconic Jyoti Basu as