Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh on Tuesday intervened to end the ongoing tussle between influential tourism minister Brij Mohan Agrawal and chief secretary Sunil Kumar, which threatened to lead his government to a crisis ahead of Assembly polls in the state.

Why is Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi a big no as the future prime minister for Jnanpith Awardee Dr U.R. Ananthamurthy? The names Hitler and Mussolini evoke the same feeling as Mr Modi, says Dr Ananthamurthy, who reasons out why Modi for PM is not an option for him.

After following paper-pencil format for years, the All India Post Graduate Medical entrance (AIPGME) test for admission to all India 50 per cent quota is likely to be conducted online in December 2013.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves for the US on Wednesday in a visit that will see him holding his sixth bilateral summit with the US president and also addressing the UN General Assembly in New York.

The CBI on Tuesday questioned former Gujarat minister of state for home Praful Patel in connection with its probe into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.

After the deadly May 25 attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh, the CPI(Maoist) is all set to step up violence in the Naxal-infested state once again in the next 2-3 months, the Union home ministry will warn states at a high-level Naxal review meeting of LWE-affected states to be chaired by home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday.

An eight-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh is among the victims of the terror attack at a shopping mall in Kenyan capital Nairobi.

Actor Amitabh Bachchan visited the ailing star Dilip Kumar at Lilavati hospital in suburban Bandra where he was admitted following a mild heart attack.

The Delhi high court will hear on a day-to-day basis from Wednesday arguments for confirmation of the death penalty awarded by a trial court to four persons for the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on December 16 last year.

With eleven more dengue deaths reported in city on Tuesday, the municipal authorities suspended two top officials from the north corporation for failing to check the rising cases. The death toll due to dengue has risen to 16 in the city.