Terming the case in the category of “rarest of rare,” a Delhi court, in the first such case of honour killing, has awarded death penalty to three members of a family, including the husband for killing his wife who demanded transfer of a piece of land in the name of her children.

With both the ruling Congress and Opposition confident of forming the next government in Assam, the Election Commission of India has completed preparation for a free and fair counting of votes for 126 constituencies at 48 counting centres across the state. Disclosing that three-tier security arrangements have been made to ensure

Now that all the exit polls have predicted the exit of Left Front, the million-dollar question being asked is: what role will Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee play in the changed circumstances?

India’s only Maoist-turned-MP Kames-hwar Baitha had the bitter experience of the typical violence of the Left-wing rebels when they blew up his ancestral house in Jharkhand’s Palamu district three days after he was released from a jail in Bihar on bail.

Discerning citizens and civil society organisations that have remained in the forefront defending the interests of the Bhopal gas victims on Wednesday reacted sharply to the Supreme Court decision dismissing the CBI’s curative petition against an earlier judgment of the apex court that diluted the charges against the accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster case.

The EC on Wednesday said that it is working on guidelines for the electronic media to ensure a level playing field for political parties that own television channels and those that cannot boast of having one.

Even after directive of the Supreme Court to set up 71 new special CBI courts in the country including two in Assam, more than 150 corruption cases of CBI are pending for trial due to non-appointment of a regular judge in the existing special CBI court in Assam.

The outcome of the Assembly polls for the four states of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam and the Union Territory of Puducherry would be known by Friday noon when counting would be taken up in all the 839 counting halls, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) S.Y. Quraishi stated this here on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday lifted its five-year-old gag order on the publication, telecast and broadcast of the contents of Amar Singh CDs recorded by the Delhi police during 2005, which the Rajya

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to Kabul Thursday in what will be his first visit to Afghanistan since August 2005. His visit can be expected to deliver “a lot of tangibles”, a government source said, without elaborating. He will likely tell Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai that India’s assistance to Afghanistan’s reconstruction and development was not contingent on presence and absence of foreign troops, and that India was in it for the long haul.