New Delhi, April 30: The RBI had outsourced the printing of currency notes to three foreign countries — the USA, UK and Germany — amounting to a sum of Rs 1 lakh crores — in the year 1997-98. The parliamentary committee on public undertakings said it was aghast to learn of the move.

New Delhi, April 30: The task of house-listing and housing census for the first phase towards preparation of the National Population Register will begin in six states on Saturday. The exercise had already been taken up 11 states and Union Territories.

New Delhi, April 30: The Indian Air Force is considering a move to confer the honorary rank of either squadron leader or wing commander on master batsman Sachin Tendulkar. Defence sources confirmed to this newspaper that the move was at a “very preliminary stage” and that any formal proposal moved by the IAF would have to be placed before the ministry of defence (MoD) for approval.

New Delhi, April 30: The Delhi University has announced a compensation of Rs 8 lakhs to the family of the deceased, a job for his widow and Rs 2 lakhs each to the six patients undergoing treatment at various hospitals in the city. 

Chicago, April 30: A 57-year-old Indian man has been charged with sexually abusing a young woman, who was friends with one of his children and considered him “a father figure”.

South Korean mountaineer Oh Eun-sun (left) waves upon her arrival at the base camp for Mt. Annapurna in Nepal on Thursday. Oh became the first woman to scale the world’s 14 highest mountains, crawling on all fours on Tuesday as she reached the last summit. Oh, 44, arrived at the final, steep stretch of Annapurna, in the Himalayas, 13 hours after she left the last camp to beat a Spanish rival to the record.     PHOTO: AP

Thimphu, April 29: After a suspense-breaking dialogue here between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani that lasted over an hour on Thursday, it has been decided that the foreign ministers and the foreign secretaries of the two countries would lay

Jammu, April 29: Madhuri Gupta, the Indian diplomat arrested for being a Pakistani mole in the Indian high commission in Islamabad, managed to drive her vehicle, which was registered in Pakistan, through the Wagah border into Punjab and then all the way to a doctor couple’s house in Sunderbani town, bordering Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, without being detected.

New Delhi, April 29: Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday announced changes in his tax proposals that will benefit coffee growers, new hospitals as well as the construction sector, and made it clear that the new service tax on air travel would not exceed Rs 100 for domestic

Mumbai/New Delhi, April 29: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on Thursday suspended the permission granted to Delhi University to use radioactive substances a day after the Delhi police said the Cobalt-60 recovered from a Mayapuri scrap market, which left one person dead and