The first meeting of the reconstituted Press Council of India held Thursday was a stormy affair, with four publisher members representing the Indian Newspaper

The Supreme Court on Thursday raised serious questions on the governance deficit, saying things had come to an “unfortunate” pass that the court had to issue contempt threats to states to implement even the Prime Minister’s directions to them on important issues.

India heads into an East Asia-Asean summit faced with the challenge posed by changing dynamics within the grouping, as the United States marks its formal entry into the process for the first time and the shadow cast by China’s

The wife of industrialist and HCL chief Shiv Nadar, Ms Kiran Nadar, has approached the Delhi police with a fresh complaint that a Jaipur based jeweller had cheated her by selling fake jewellery worth over `14 crores. Ms Kiran filed a fresh FIR at New Friends Colony police station on Tuesday against the accused who is reportedly out on bail.

Farmers of Barwala village in outer Delhi forcibly stopped the construction of Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Wednesday. The farmers took the extreme step as the deadline granted to the government for revised compensation on land acquisition passed on November 15.

The BJP on Wednesday said Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s decision to divide the state into four regions is “wrongly timed” and is not development oriented. The party is contemplating bringing a no-confidence motion against the Mayawati government in the coming Assembly session.

Till 1997, when the then chief minister Kalyan Singh installed her statue at a crossing in the state capital, Uda Devi and her contribution to the freedom movement was almost unknown.

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot reshuffled his three-year-old Cabinet while inducting six new ministers and dropped five “tainted” faces from his council of ministers. Governor Shivraj Patil administered oath to the new

A day after the Mayawati government announced to split Uttar Pradesh into four states, the Congress on Wednesday released a third list of 78 candidates for the upcoming state Assembly polls.

The CBI, probing the Bhanwari Devi case, has sought a detailed medical report about the health condition of former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna from the MDM hospital, Jodhpur. Maderna, a key suspect in the Devi missing case, was admitted at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the MDM hospital after he complained of chest pain on Saturday.