Four persons, including three children, were killed and six others injured when an old building collapsed at pilgrim city Puri, nearly 65 km from here, on Saturday night.

The information technology department of the Orissa government has mooted a proposal for bar-coding of official despatches to prevent forgery of official letters issued on the internet.

The Supreme Court has held as illegal and unethical the demand for capitation fees by private technical and medical colleges from students, and has directed the Centre to make laws to put an end to such practices which deny admission to meritorious students from financially weak backgrounds in those institutions.

In what may be a serious embarrassment for the Congress party, its government in Assam has vested the power of appointing the vigilance commission with the chief minister.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said that India should endeavour to bring its literacy rate up to match not only the world average but touch the levels attained by developed nations.

More than three months after the parliamentary standing committee rejected the proposal of Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s pet project rural medicine course, it seems that the course has hit another road block.

The Tripura high court has ordered the doctor of Santir Bazar PHC Sanjit Kumar Deb and Sajal Sharma, officer-in-charge of the Manpathar police outpost in South Tripura district to pay `2 lakh each to the wife of one Krishna Keshab Datta, a police constable who died in police custody, for negligence in performing their duty as well as conspiring to protect some Tripura State Rifles officials who inflicted grievous injury on the victim causing his demise.

A working women’s hostel even in the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited township in Bhopal is not safe for the inmates and this was starkly exposed during the intervening night of September 7 and 8 when an intruder broke the window grill, entered a room and violently attacked a girl, who was seriously injured and had to be admitted in ICU.

Even as the housing stock in the city is on the rise, the sales are plummeting, but property prices continued to go up and have now reached an all time high. According to a report released by Liases Foras, 146.10 million sq ft inventory lay unsold in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), which is equal to around 1.35 lakh flats.

Private builders as well as government bodies like the Mhada and Cidco have in the last few years tripled the property rates, despite recommendations to revise the prices to bring them on par with the purchasing power of the citizens.