A senior official in the women and child development (WCD) ministry allegedly slashed her wrist inside her office on Tuesday apparently as she was upset after being scolded by a superior.

Members of the Youth Congress and the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) have defended their partymen’s act of staging a protest outside the Aditi Hotel and taking a legal recourse against the owner.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to provide a relief to leading industrialist Anil Ambani by directing his firm Reliance Telecom Ltd (RTL) to approach the appropriate bench with its plea against the order of a trial court summoning Mr Ambani and his wife Tina to depose as prosecution witnesses in the 2G spectrum allocation case.

The poverty ratio in the country has declined sharply by 15.3 per cent in 2011-12 from 37.2 per cent in 2004-05, the year in which the UPA came to power at Centre after defeating the BJP-led NDA.

As part of a regular series of interactions between the two countries, India and China on Tuesday began their third meeting of working mechanism for consultation and coordination on border affairs. The two-day meeting comes in the aftermath of the recent Chinese incursions and it is the first since the three-week stand off in April at Depsang Valley near LAC in Ladakh.

A seasoned politician, a pro-active President and commanding respect cutting across the partyline, Mr Pranab Mukherjee rising above his predecessor Pratibha Patil will complete a year in office on July 25.

An Iranian couple has hired womb of a woman here to have surrogate baby, a doctor in a specialised hospital said on Tuesday. This would be the first case of surrogacy in Chhattisgarh.

The third gram sabha held on Tuesday at Tadijhola village in Orissa’s Kalahandi district, saw the Dongaria Kondhs, a primitive tribe living on the Niyamgiri hill, rejecting the bauxite mining proposal in the area. “Niyamgiri is our home…it is our God. We cannot live without it,” said Rajendra Gouda, a local resident.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBSCD), along with 14 top Indian companies, has joined hands to launch the India water tool (IWT). The IWT provides free detailed data on groundwater availability and quality risks, helping companies better manage their water use.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a PIL seeking shifting of the probe into the IPL spot-fixing from the Delhi and Mumbai police to the CBI to unearth the larger conspiracy. A bench headed by Justice B.S. Chauhan asked petitioner Sharmila Ghuge, an educationist in a Mumbai law college, to approach the high court.