With the Union Cabinet on Thursday giving an in-principle approval for formation of the Rail Tariff Authority (RTA), the government has begun the exercise of exploring the possibility of expediting the process for setting up the regulatory authority through the executive route.

More than a month after popular anti-diabetes drug Pioglitazone was suspended in wake of possible health risks associated with it, the Union health ministry revoked the ban.

A Girgaum-based businessman has approached the D.B. Marg police and complained that two of his neighbours allegedly sent him nude photographs of his fiancée through courier and email to extort money from him. The FIR in the case was lodged on Friday.

Flood affected victims of the towns of Lambagarh, Vinayak Chatti, Pandukeshwar, Govindghat and Pinoli Ghat in Uttarakhand have written to a slew of ministers demanding compensation for the damages incurred by the failure of the engineers of Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd (JPVL), to open the reservoir gates of the Vishnuprayag Hydro Electric Power Project (VHEPP).

Eager to regulate the thriving business of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) clinics that have opened up avenues for unethical surrogacy practices, the department of health research on Friday said there is no proposal of setting up an expert committee to relook the draft bill.

The Indian cricket board’s working committee meeting here on Friday proved a non-starter as it was apparently called off due to a “technical hitch” in the notice sent to members.

Train services in Assam were completely paralysed and all rail links between the Northeast and the rest of the country were completely cut off as the All-Bodo Students’ Union launched its agitation for a separate Bodoland.

Making it clear an all-powerful CBI director without any adequate checks and balances will always carry the risk of “potential misuse”, the Centre on Friday opposed the agency’s plea in the Supreme Court for more powers for its director and for increasing his tenure to three years from the existing two.

Days after a Mumbai sessions court framed charges against actor Salman Khan in a hit-and-run case, the Bollywood star suffered another setback Friday with the UK government rejecting his visa application.

Factionalism still plagues the BJP, with some leaders accusing patriarch Lal Krishna Advani of “instigating” filmstar MP Shatrughan Sinha to attack emerging saffron face Narendra Modi. Mr Sinha on Friday again took a swipe at the Gujarat CM’s so-called “popularity”, saying “if popularity was the criteria, then Amitabh Bachhan should have been the country’s President”.