In a judgement that could have electoral ramifications in Haryana, former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay Chautala were today sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for corruption amidst scenes of violence by his supporters in a Delhi court complex.

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez was spotted enjoying a break from her hectic schedule with her four-year-old twins in Miami.

The BJP today demanded that home minister Sushilkumar Shinde be sacked over his charge that the party and RSS promoted “Hindu terrorism” and announced a nation-wide protest on January 24 against the controversial remark.

Against the backdrop of chill in relations over the beheading incident, India today said ties with Pakistan can move forward in a “sensible and calibrated” way once the “dust settles”.

Jessica Chastain’s Mama and Zero Dark Thirty easily surpassed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comeback movie The Last Stand and Mark Wahlberg-Russell Crowe’s Broken City to claim first and second spots at the weekend box office in the US.

India’s challenge ended in the men’s doubles event of the Australian Open with the defeat of Mahesh Bhupathi and Daniel Nestor even as Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna progressed to the mixed doubles quarter-finals with their respective partners, here today.

Lashing out at Sushilkumar Shinde for his controversial remarks during the Congress summit in Jaipur, the BJP today said it seems the home minister has lost his mental balance.

The elevation of Rahul Gandhi as Congress vice president will immensely help the Congress in the 2014 general elections, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit said today.

Union minister Krishna Tirath today did not favour reduction of age of juveniles from 18 to 16 years, but suggested stringent punishment in the ‘rarest of rare crimes’ like the Delhi gangrape.

Official notification for the elections to the 60-member assembly seats in Tripura to be held on February 14 was issued today.