The praises for Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s good governance and his weekly meetings with the people resonating in neighbouring Jharkhand resulted in a tribal woman alleging harassment by the Jharkhand police approaching him on Monday to seek his help.

Violence erupted on the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) campus in Varanasi on Monday, hours before Congress MP Rahul Gandhi arrived here for an interaction with the students.

The BJP’s attempts to make Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the favourite punching bag could be counter-productive. This is because the saffron party is on the defensive on the corruption issue in Karnataka and lacks a leader with a clean image to fight the battle against corruption.

Hrithik Roshan, who celebrates his 37th birthday, says that he is very happy today. Though his knees hurt him a lot, but now he is taking life on a positive note.
He was chosen as the most desirable man recently.

Seven persons, including six children, were injured when a drum containing chemicals exploded outside a printing press at Okhla on Monday.

Terming his crime as the “rarest of the rare” warranting nothing less than the gallows, a city court on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old man to death for mercilessly killing his father and chopping his body for sacrifice to a deity in 2008 in the belief that it would ward off his troubles with his wife.

The body of an eight-year-old girl, who had gone missing since January 3, was found in an under-construction building a couple of lanes away from her house in Patel Nagar on Monday. The police is trying to find out whether the girl was sexually assaulted. Two minor boys living in the locality are suspected to be involved in the incident.

A 52-year-old man, who had links with Hizbul Mujahideen and other terrorist organisations, was on Monday sentenced to 14 years’ rigorous imprisonment for raising funds for banned terror outfits by a Delhi court which noted that acts of terrorism have to be dealt with suitably at the judicial level.

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is likely to make a fresh endeavour to break the deadlock in Parliament on the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Ms Kumar is expected to call leaders of political parties, who could not join her a fortnight ago, to discuss the issue ahead of the Budget Session.

Unidentified armed assailants went on a rampage at Uttam Nagar in west Delhi on Sunday evening, carrying out three incidents within an hour and looting cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees while firing gunshots and stabbing a medical store owner. The A1/350, Hastsal Road residence of a property dealer was burgled by