The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) came down heavily on the environment ministry for non-utilisation of Compensatory Afforest-ation (Campa) Fund, which grew from `1,200 to `23,608 crore between 2006-12.

In a move that could speed up the bullet train dream, the railways will ink an agreement with Japan Internal Cooperation Agency (JAICA) for comprehensive study of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai high speed rail corridor.

The coal ministry, racing against time set by the Supreme Court for tracing the missing documents pertaining to the Coalgate scam, has begun approaching the concerned PSUs to locate the untraceable files sought by the CBI in connection with the scam.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday awarded the prestigious Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony to world acclaimed orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta.

A court in Jodhpur on Friday has directed the jail administration to examine the health of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu and submit a report by September 10. The court passed this order while hearing a plea made by Asaram to allow a female ayurvedic doctor to cure his ailment.

A pall of gloom has descended on the Baguiati house of Gopal Banerjee, the younger brother of Sushmita Banerjee who was allegedly gunned down by the Taliban in Kharana, capital of Afghanistan’s Paktika province. “We want to appeal to the government of India to make arrangements to bring didi’s body to Kolkata,” Mr Banerjee said.

A man in a Chhattisgarh town has found a weird way to appropriate government funds by conducting “fake” inter-caste marriages and had even gone to the extent of tying knots with over 300 women under fictitious names himself, the police said on Friday.

Crippled with shortage of doctors, the Union health ministry has decided to take help from the private institutions to take up their pet project that aims to screen people for cancer and cardio-vascular diseases.

Sandeep Kumar Soni, a young man in his late twenties, is on his way to creating a record of sorts.
Sandeep has written the entire Bhagwad Gita with engraved letters on plywood.

Effectively dismissing TV reports on Thursday that cited an NSAB report to claim China had grabbed 640 sq km of Indian territory in Ladakh, defence minister A.K. Antony told Parliament on Friday that National Security Advisory Board chairman Shyam Saran had “not stated” in a report that “China has occupied, or has denied access to India to any part of Indian territory”.