In a setback to Times Now television channel, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to interfere with an interim order of the Bombay high court that directed the Times Global Broadcasting Co. Ltd. to deposit `20 crore in cash and `80 crore as bank guarantee in the court in a defamation suit filed by the former Supreme Court judge P.B. Sawant, claiming `100 crore as damages.

The five-phase panchayat polls begin with the election in three districts: Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore on Thursday. A large number of seats in the first-phase fall in the sensitive Jangalmahal area, therefore most of the booths have been declared sensitive and hyper-sensitive. Due to this development, between 60 to 70 per cent booths will not be covered by Central forces.

A 5-year-old was raped and murdered by an unidentified person in the early hours of Tuesday. Her body was found the following morning in Vivek Khand locality in Gomti Nagar area by morning walkers, about 500 metres from the girl’s house, with dogs sniffing around it.

Massive funds that could have been collected from the industry and channelised for conservation of biodiversity in India could not be collected due to lack of proper implementation of the Biological Diversity Act 2002, which has been enacted to ensure conservation of biodiversity, sustainable use of its components and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilisation of bio-resources.

The skewed sex ratio of Haryana has resulted in large scale trafficking of girls from the other states into the hinterland of Haryana. A report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) has come out with this disturbing trend.

Voicing his displeasure over the belligerent attack launched by his party colleagues against the state election commission, West Bengal government chief whip Sobhandeb Chatterjee said that political leaders should exercise more restraint.

Engineering students from KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar, launched their latest racing car ORI 2013 “ARION-2” on Tuesday.

Two men, allegedly affiliated to wanted underworld don Chhota Shakeel, were arrested by the city crime branch on Monday for allegedly issuing threats to Congress MLA Baba Siddiqui.

There were emotional scenes in the sessions court presided by Judge V. D.

In the first eight days of July this year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recorded eight new cases of cholera with three cases in the B Ward, i.e. the Kalbadevi region, alone.