The Orissa police on Monday arrested two of the three youth who allegedly gangraped a 28-year-old trainee nun after holding her in captivity for nearly a week.

Forensic analysis of the scene of the alleged fake encounter in which Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed and of the weapons recovered from the spot indicate that they did not belong to the victims, sources said.

If performance report of the comptroller and auditor-general of India (CAG) for the year ended March 2012 is any indicator, the flagship programme of the UPA — the Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) — has failed to achieve its target in Assam.

Extensive use of technology, SMSes, emails, mobilephones have brought down the curtains on the 163-year-old telegram service in the country.

The state Congress unit seems to be upset with the attitude of the NCP’s state leadership.

Shiv Sena MLA and former minister Suresh Jain on Thursday appealed to a Jalgaon court, seeking that he be shifted to a prison in Jalgaon from the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai.

The landmark judgment of the Supreme Court that will prevent jailed politicians from contesting elections, even if they are not convicted for any crime, was welcomed in spirit by the political parties

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) took senior Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gopinath Munde to task for alleging that NCP chief Sharad Pawar is conspiring to put him in trouble.

Consistent heavy rainfall has dampened BMC’s efforts to repair potholes on Mumbai’s roads.

The monsoon season is not even halfway through, but the water stock in the seven lakes supplying water to the city has already crossed the 50 per cent mark due to non-stop rainfall in the catchment ar