The sessions court here granted conditional bail to former Union Carbide India Ltd chairman Keshub Mahindra, who was convicted in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak case.
It, however, reserved its order on the bail applications of the six other UCIL executives convicted in the case last month. District and sessions judge Subhash Kakde g

The indigenously developed ballistic missile defence system will be test fired in August this year, a top defence official said on Thursday.
“Now the (ballistic missile defence system) test is going to be conducted in the month of August during which we will try to intercept a missile at altitudes of 15-20 kilometres,” DRDO chief V.K. Saraswat told reporters here.

Hitting out at the bureaucracy, minister of state for health Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday held it responsible for “red-tapism” in the ministry and said he felt absence of support system for implementing projects.

Even as the fate of Guantanamo Bay remains unresolved, the US has created one of the most high-tech military courts to try the detainees who were captured during the “war against terror,” that has bee

Breaking a brief freeze, China on Thursday indicated it was ready for a military engagement with US by saying it would welcome a visit by the American defence secretary Robert Gates at an “appropriate

India’s exports rose 35.1 per cent in May to $16.1 billion year-on-year, but the trouble brewing in some European economies may weigh on future demand.
The seventh straight month of rise was registered on a low export base of $ 11.95 billion in May 2009, when shipments had plunged by over 29 per cent from the previous fiscal under the impact of the recession in the US and several other advanced economies.

Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, which so far had focused primarily on India, is having global aspirations and has spread its tentacles beyond Pakistan and Afghanistan, as manifested by the David Headley case, a to

Food inflation declined by a whopping 3.98 percentage points to 12.92 per cent for the third week of June, as the rate of price rise in cereals and vegetables showed a remarkable drop due to the high base effect.

Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Communications (RCom) will acquire Digicable, the country’s largest cable TV service provider, in an all-stock deal believed to be worth about $1 billion.

Concer-ned over the continuing inflationary pressures, a Reserve Bank report on Thursday said that the primary objective of the monetary policy would be to ensure price stability, amid expectations that the central bank would raise short-term rates in its July 27 monetary review.