Indian diplomats leave for Maldives as crisis deepens
With the Maldives slipping into a deeper crisis with defiant ousted president Mohamed Nasheed alleging a coup, a team of senior officials of the external affairs ministry on Friday left for Male to as
Supreme Court nixes Army chief age plea
In a major blow to Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh, the Supreme Court Friday refused to entertain his plea challenging a government order setting his birth date as May 10, 1950 and said it will b
RTI activist attacked in Rajasthan
A 65-year-old Right to Information (RTI) activist who was working to expose irregularities in the rural jobs scheme MGNREGA in Rajasthan is battling for life at a hospital here after being attacked by
Court notice to Kendriya Vidyalayas on admitting poor students
The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), the ministry of human resource development and the Directorate of Education on a petition challenging the lega
Sleazegate: BJP, opposition spar over three ministers
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka and opposition parties on Thursday stepped up their attack on each other over action against three sleazegate ministers caught watching a porn clip
DGCA to conduct surprise checks to catch drunk pilots, crew
The Indian aviation watchdog on Thursday said it will carry out surprise checks and enforce stricter norms to stop pilots and cabin crew getting tipsy while at work.
"We are currently conducting regu
Tamil Nadu sets up expert committee on Kudankulam
The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday announced a four-member expert committee to look into the safety aspects of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) and the fears of locals about the project.
Jailed Malegaon blast accused allowed AC train travel
The Bombay High Court on Thursday allowed Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, prime accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast in Maharashtra, to travel to Madhya Pradesh by a second class air-conditioned coach for a
Narendra Modi among BJP's PM candidates: Gadkari
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was one of the party's contenders for prime minister.
On a day when the special investigatio
Woman dumps new-born girl from moving vehicle
Upset over the birth of a girl, a woman flung the baby out of an ambulance in Rajasthan when she was being taken to her house from a health centre after delivery, police said on Thursday. The baby sur