The Centre on Thursday decided not to file any case against hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and activist Arundhati Roy for purportedly giving “hate speeches” at a seminar held here last week.

After he lands in New Delhi on November 7, US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama will be visiting Humayun’s Tomb, the 450-year-old monument which is also a world heritage site. While the tomb has itself been restored in July and August this year and has been fully illuminated, the Archaeological Survey of India said that no special preparations were being planned for the occasion.

Barack Obama’s itinerary in Mumbai and to a lesser extent New Delhi resembles a CEO’s than a visiting head of state.
The major focus of his engagements in Mumbai will be his message on economics, on increasing exports, supporting jobs in the US, and commercial deals that he hopes will be clinched by the time he lands in the city.

Former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday stated that the Congress will move a privilege motion against Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and the then finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal for misleading the House.

As many as 34 women leaders belonging to different castes and communities have become AICC members from Uttar Pradesh. Their empowerment could certainly pose a threat to the BSP led by chief minister Mayawati.

Cash worth `6.44 lakhs was recovered on Thursday from the hotel room of Congress party’s central leader Sagar Raika and Bihar Youth Congress president Lallan Kumar in Begusarai by the police who suspected the money was meant for distribution among voters to unfairly influence them.

The BJP high command cautioned the Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj from making “unnecessary remarks.” Ms Swaraj was ticked off by party leadership for her remarks that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s “magic does not work everywhere” when she was asked whether Mr Modi will campaign for the Bihar Assembly polls.

An 85-year-old woman was found strangulated to death in her bedroom at her Rani Bagh residence on Tuesday night in a suspected case of robbery.
The police said the deceased, Maya Devi, was found strangulated with her chunni in the early hours on Wednesday by her son Arvind. The family lives on first floor of house number 3213, Mahendra Park, Saraswati Vihar, in northwest Delhi.

A day after a teenage student jumped from the third floor of his school building in east Delhi after a liquor bottle was allegedly found in his bag, Delhi government on Wednesday ordered a probe into the incident, with the report to be submitted in three days’ time.

The BCCI has served a termination notice to the faction-ridden Kochi IPL franchise, but along with a 30-day extension to resolve its stakeholding tug-of-war.
The decision, taken unanimously at a hastily-convened IPL governing council meeting in Nagpur on Wednesday, gives the $333 million team time till November 27 to