The CBI finally questioned sacked Rajasthan water resources minister Mahipal Maderna on Thursday in Jodhpur for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of a nurse, Bhanwari Devi, while a 48-minute video CD showing the ex-minister and the nurse also came into the open.

India and Pakistan have evidently decided to turn their backs on their acrimonious past, with Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yousaf Raza Gilani publicly praising one another after an hour-long one-on-one interaction here, and announcing that in their subsequent dialogue they would be even more forthcoming.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee (centre) with actors Shah Rukh Khan and Sharmila Tagore during the inauguration of the 17th Kolkata Film Festival at the Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata on

Union urban development minister Kamal Nath on Thursday said that Delhi Master Plan 2021 would be revised next year. The minister said that it was due to “irrelevant” planning that illegal colonies have proliferated in the national capital.

A female media marketing executive has been arrested with her paramour and a friend for her alleged involvement in a robbery in west Delhi, the police said on Thursday.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit and Union urban development minister Kamal Nath jointly inaugurated the city’s first automated multilevel car parking in Sarojini Nagar Market on Thursday.

Union urban development minister Kamal Nath and chief minister Sheila Dikshit at the inauguration of the automated multi-level car parking lot at Sarojini Nagar Market in New Delhi on Thursday.

Several Hindu religious leaders here on Thursday criticised saffron clad Swami Agnivesh for entering Bigg Boss, dubbing his action as a publicity stunt to draw media attention.

An eleventh hour effort by the top brass of the Karnataka unit of the BJP to mollify former minister B. Sreeramulu and persuade him to contest the bypoll to Bellary (ST) Assembly constituency as the party’s nominee came a cropper on Thursday night.

The main Opposition Congress has trained its guns and announced that it will leave no stone unturned to corner the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party during the coming Winter Session of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly and the pressure will be mounted even outside by organising a week-long protest march prior to the Assembly session.