Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Monday sought an immediate sanction of `2,351 crores from the Centre for flood relief in the state. Ms Mayawati, who met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday evening, claimed that the Centre has not provided any assistance to the state for flood relief so far.

With a wafer-thin majority in the Legislative Assembly, will chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa be able to pursue his avowed agenda of development?
On a day when the Karnataka high court prolonged uncertainty by handing a split verdict of the crucial issue of disqualification of 11 rebel BJP legislators, Mr Yeddyurappa said he would chant the mantra of development and refrain from commenting on dirty politics of Opposition parties. He told mediapersons in Mysore that henceforth

In a bid to give a tit-for-tat treatment to Bihar chief minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, the BJP has decided not to take his name during campaigning during the state Assembly elections.

The government has decided to do away with the optional paper in the civil services preliminary examination and instead replace it with two compulsory papers. The changes have been brought in after 30 years. From next year, there will be no optional paper in the civil services preliminary examination and candidates will have to sit

Giving a fresh twist to the controversy surrounding Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorist David Coleman Headley, government officials here questioned why the US authorities did not share Headley’s name with Indian agencies despite two of his wives forewarning the FBI of terror attacks in India prior to 26/11. The officials were wondering whether the US authorities had deliberately withheld Headley’s name to conceal his former identity as an undercover agent for a US agency.

The Karnataka high court on Monday, probably in its first verdict on the “anti-defection law”, witnessed a split decision on an issue that could have decided the future of the first-ever BJP government in South India.

To clear the backlog of pending cases that have piled up in the courts, the Delhi Legal Services Authority (DLSA) in co-ordination with the Delhi high court will hold a Lok Adalat in its premises and in all six district court complexes on October 24 to render speedy justice to litigants.

A man’s attempt to avoid paying `10,000 monthly maintenance to his estranged wife failed as Tis Hazari Court additional sessions judge asked him to pay `5,000 extra to his wife, after noting that he had allegedly tried to conceal his income.

A Delhi police team rushed to Hardwar early Monday to retrieve child, a day after a 57-year-old sadhvi and her six aides were arrested for running a child trafficking racket. The police said seven persons, including a sadhvi identified as Binaji Maharaj, a childless couple identified as Afroz and Mona in addition to Mohammad Zuber, Saira Khusboo and Nanhi, the sadhvi’s partners in crime, were arrested in Neb Sarai on Sunday.

Dussehra celebrations turned sour for residents of Sangam Vihar when two youth tripped and drowned in the Yamuna while immersing idols of Goddess Durga on Monday afternoon.