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  Local people gather near the derailed carriages of the Bongaigaon-Guwahati Chilarai Passenger train in Sathisarapa village, on the outskirts of Guwahati city, yesterday. Guwahati: At least three people were killed and 50 injured when a Guwahat...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday rapped the government over the way it has handled army chief General V K Singh’s age row, saying the entire process of deciding his year of birth was “vitiated”. The apex court will hear on February 10 th...

  Priyanka Gandhi (left) speaks with supporters of Congress party during an election campaign rally at Amethi in Uttar Pradesh yesterday. The Uttar Pradesh state goes to the polls from February 8. New Delhi: Thirty-five percent of the candidates...

  New Delhi: A court here will rule today whether or not Home Minister P Chidambaram, who was the finance minister when former communications minister allocated 122 telecom licenses that have now been cancelled by the Supreme Court, should be made ...

New Delhi: Amid constant attack by the opposition on the issue of corruption, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday said the government had taken several measures in the previous year to curb the malaise but there was still a long way to go. He als...

Bangalore: Discounting US intelligence reports of a limited armed conflict between India and China, a senior Indian Air Force officer yesterday ruled out any war in the near future but said Indian forces were fully prepared to protect the country’s...

New Delhi: In a blow to the government, the Supreme Court yesterday quashed all 122 licences for mobile phone services issued in 2008 and left it to a trial court to decide on a possible probe into the role of Home Minister P Chidambaram, then financ...

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday complimented “enlightened citizens and NGOs” for doggedly pursuing the exposing the 2G spectrum allocation scandal. “But for the vigilance of some enlightened citizens and NGOs..., unsuspecting citize...

Hyderabad: Visiting Chanchalguda Central Jail as Andhra Pradesh home secretary, he had received a guard of honour. Just two months later, senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer B P Acharya yesterday found himself in the same jail as an un...

  New Delhi: Abandoned at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, two-year-old battered baby Falak continued to be critical yesterday, a doctor said. She is still on ventilator.“The lung infection has reduced as the antibiotics ...

OTTAWA: A Canadian entrepreneur faces charges of bribing an Indian cabinet minister in the first prosecution of a person under Canada’s foreign anti-corruption law, a paper said yesterday. Indian-born entrepreneur Nazir Karigar, 64, was charged 18...

  NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday that “a lack of collective will” was hampering efforts to forge a common global front against the threat of climate change. Addressing the opening of a Sustainable Development Summit in...

  Lucknow/New Delhi: A week before polling begins in Uttar Pradesh, the battle reached a feverish pitch yesterday as Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and BSP leader Mayawati crossed swords, calling themselves the saviour of India’s most populous sta...

Pune/New Delhi: The Indian Army and Pune police yesterday blamed each other for the Tuesday clash between a traffic constable and two officers from the College of Military Engineering (CME). The army also ordered an inquiry into the “unfortunate i...

  Kolkata: Bollywood badshah Shah Rukh Khan yesterday refused to categorically state whether he had slapped Shirish Kunder or not but said the reportage on the incident was affecting his kids. “Lots of things are being said about my life in news...

New Delhi: India yesterday stepped up pressure on Oslo as the uncle of two Indian children, who were taken away by Norwegian Child Welfare Services on grounds of emotional disconnect, heads for Norway to present his “statement of intent” before t...

  A caparisoned elephant during an annual temple festival in the southern city of Kochi yesterday. The festival features a colourful procession of decorated elephants and drum concerts.

Ahmedabad/New Delhi: Giving a reprieve to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the state high court yesterday rejected a petition seeking his deposition before the Nanavati-Mehta commission probing the 2002 communal riots in the state. Reacting to ...

New Delhi: Three issues related to the 2G case, including Home Minister P Chidambaram’s alleged role in the scam, are expected to be decided by the Supreme Court today — the last day in office of Justice A K Ganguly who, along with Justice G S Si...

Chennai: It was all-out war in the Tamil Nadu assembly yesterday with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and one-time ally A Vijayakant, chief of the DMDK, exchanging bitter words. Vijayakant, whose party fought the April 2011 assembly elections with the...

New Delhi: A policy targeting expansion and modernisation of the postal network would be announced this year, Communications Minister Kapil Sibal said yesterday and added that the postal department had applied to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for...

New Delhi: The government has to decide within a maximum of four months whether or not to sanction the prosecution of a public servant for corruption, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday, while pulling up the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for delayin...

  Lucknow: Massive employment opportunities for the youth, expansion of educational and health facilities, quotas for minorities and free electricity connections to poor were among the promises the Congress made Tuesday in its election manifesto ...

  New Delhi: If somebody discusses bribing a public servant - is that a private conversation, the Supreme Court yesterday asked industrialist Ratan Tata while the government said that the versions published in the media of the controversial convers...

New Delhi: The Indian Army’s administrative wing yesterday came under sharp attack from both Defence Minister A K Antony as well as the army chief, Gen V K Singh, who blamed it for the age row that has pitted the officer against the government. Bo...

New Delhi: National carrier Air India yesterday said it will revise its on-board catering menu in the economy class section of short-haul domestic flights effective Feb 1. “For flights less than 90 minutes, the standard food items like breakfast...

  Police and Air Force personnel retrieve the wreckage of a two-seater trainer aircraft from a lake after it crashed near Chennai yesterday. The aircraft plunged into a lake but both pilots ejected safely, local media reported.

  Former Afghan president Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (left) with President Pratibha Patil during a meeting at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi yesterday. Mojaddedi in 1992 served as the first president of Afghanistan after the fall of the communist re...

NEW DELHI: India has selected the French firm Dassault over the Eurofighter consortium as the preferred bidder for 126 fighter jets in a major contract estimated to be worth $12bn. Dassault won the right to enter exclusive negotiations with India af...

Chandigarh: Having set a new record with 76.63 percent voting in Punjab’s election to 117 assembly seats, voters have left the main parties and leaders in a state of anxiety till the results finally come out March 6. Each of the three main players...