The condition of the 22-year-old sexual assault survivor has been steadily improving, informed the authorities at Jaslok Hospital on Sunday.

The mother of the 22-year-old photojournalist, who was sexually assaulted, wants the “severest punishment” handed out to the rapists.

The Pune police is yet to make any headway in the murder case of Dr Narendra Dabholkar. The only clue they have is the possibility that the killers could be located in the districts of Satara, Sangli or Kolhapur. No lead has come out yet from questioning gun running gangs in the city and tracing the bike used in the crime.

Trinamul Congress general secretary Mukul Roy on Sunday claimed that the people of hills have lost faith in the leadership of GJM chief Bimal Gurung even as the process began to appoint the next chief executive of Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA).

In what has alarmed the security agencies, the central committee of the CPI(Maoist) has decided to extend their support the ethnic groups demanding separate states in Assam and Gorkhaland in West Bengal.

Indian experts from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will soon visit Bhutan to restore its centuries old fortress, Trongsa Dzong, which has suffered destruction due to the mining activities carried out for constructing a hydroelectric project in its vicinity.

The police has arrested six persons, including two of its own constables and a woman, for allegedly running a a sex and extortion racket in Rani Bagh area in the city.

The BJP on Sunday announced the formation of the election committee and core group of the Delhi unit and appointing leaders of different factions in the two bodies in a balancing act to end infighting and discontent ahead of the Assembly polls.

The city government is all set to ease norms for development in the 1,600 unauthorised colonies to woo around 40 lakh residents, considered as traditional votebank for Congress party, with Assembly elections just three months away.

Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar's comment that onion prices in north India would be normalised if supply from the south resumes has drawn flak from across the country. Even lay farmers in Tamil Nadu have mocked the justification that rains in Tamil Nadu had triggered price rise (of onions and shallots) in the north.