Harbin Pharmaceuti-cal Group, a state-owned Chinese drug company came under fire after it decided to show off its opulent office on the Net.

India failed to win the Miss Universe pageant again.

After tabling the Land Bill in the Parliament, minister of rural development Jairam Ramesh said that the legislative proposal is a “political response to a political issue” and gave full credit to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi for the bill.

The Centre has issued an alert across states, especially Assam, asking them to take extra precautions and remain highly vigilant in the run up to the Independence Day. The states have been alerted about the possibility of a terror attack, particularly in J&K and the Northeast, in the run up to the Independence Day and asked them to take every possible step to foil any attempt by militants to disturb peace.

UP minister Avadh Pal Singh Yadav, who is to be booked for triple murders in Etah district on the orders of the local court, has refused to step down from his post.

Former cricketer and BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu is taking his new role as the co-incharge of the Delhi unit of the party very seriously. Sidhu is not only spending lots of time with the Delhi state BJP leaders but is also teaching them how to build the party base in the true sense. Recently, Sidhu after going through an internal report of the Delhi unit of the party was unhappy at the way the party was building grounds to capture the national capital.

For the promotions of his forthcoming film Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, actor-singer Ali Zafar is planning a live concert to announce the film’s arrival, which also stars Imran Khan and Katrina Kaif.

The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has the unenviable job of trying to please the ever sarcastic creed of journalists. It has been trying really hard to reach out to the community.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi had an hour long session with the ladies organisation of an industries chamber on the women’s empowerment issue recently. All through the session, Mr Modi praised his state for implementing many schemes for empowering women including making it mandatory in school admission forms to have the mother’s name. Later, one of the participants, after appreciating the initiatives taken by the Modi

A city court has rapped the police for falsely implicating innocent people in their desperation to crack cases as it acquitted an accused in a decade-old hit-and-run case. Giving the benefit of doubt to the accused, Maha Singh, who was chased and arrested by two policemen, metropolitan magistrate (MM) Prashant Sharma, said, “This is a case