A city court dismissed a petition seeking lodging of FIR against the director and producer of the movie Jolly LLB for allegedly infringing copyright of an author on similar concept of corrupt practices in police station shown in the movie.

The feat of North Delhi Municipal Corporation medical college starting in a record time of six months will be included as a chapter on innovative project management in the curriculum at IIM Bengaluru.

In an attempt to curb tension in the troubled hill district of Darjeeling, the state government on Friday blocked airing of three news channels by the local cable TV operators even as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM)-sponsored “indefinite bandh” entered the seventh day.

The controversy related to the suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal refuses to die down.
Senior UP minister Azam Khan has now defended the statement made by his colleagues about running the state without IAS officers.

Over 105 officers have been suspended in Uttar Pradesh in the past two decades from 1993 to 2013 and no evidence was found against 100 officers who were quietly reinstated.

The issue of sharing of water and imbalanced development is creating unease in different parts of Maharashtra at a time when neighbouring Andhra Pradesh has virtually become a “disturbed state” on the issue of Telangana.

Claiming that the Telangana decision has “opened a Pandora’s box” by reviving the demand for other separate states, including Gorakhaland and Bodoland, the RSS is of the view that the manner in which UPA took decision on the separate Telangana seems “another activity of scoring political points for garnering votes”.

The exercise to rope in block Congress committees to shortlist candidates for the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly elections has proved futile. The Congress has now asked aspirants to submit their applications in a prescribed proforma introduced by the AICC.

Fearing a third consecutive power drought in Madhya Pradesh, which is set to go to the Assembly elections by the year-end, the Congress leadership has recently insisted on the need for unity in the state unit of the party at a meeting, which was attended by all the Union ministers from the state besides functionaries of the PCC.

Doing away with pre-Independence direct electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, used to treat mentally ill patients, the right of mentally-ill patients to decide their mode of treatment and decriminalising suicide for them are some of the progressive provisions of the new Mental Health Care Bill proposed by the government, which is expected to be introduced in this session of Parliament.