Iran has offered to sign a bilateral investment protection treaty with India and invited Indian corporates to invest in refineries and power plants that are likely to be disinvested.

Faced with the prospects of being thrashed for the second time by a teacher, a Class 6 student of Mother Teresa school in east Delhi allegedly attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the second floor of school building on Thursday morning.

Vice-president Mr Hamid Ansari on Thursday asked if the current electoral system encourages a politics defined by “who you are” and “where you live” rather than “what you believe in” and “what you want to achieve”? And what can be done to address the grievance of under-representation and unequal access to political power emanating from the Muslims? The data is compelling and disturbing, he observed.

A Delhi court on Thursday awarded the death sentence to the domestic help of an elderly woman for murdering her and her 12-year-old grandson in 2007 in the Vasant Kunj neighbourhood of south Delhi.

As the party has decided to go alone in UP, the Congress is working on a two-prong strategy to face the electoral battle in the state in 2012. First the party has been working on a few of the smaller caste-parties including RLD, Apna Dal and Peace Party to merge them with the Congress. It has also laid out a comprehensive plan to prepare a detailed chargesheet relating to “institutionalised corruption” against Mayawati government in the state.

The first burst of monsoon has made the civic agencies re-think about their tall claims of finishing the Commonwealth Games-2010 related projects by July 15. The new deadline has been pushed further by a fortnight. A visit to the trans-Yamuna areas by two Delhi government ministers — A.K. Walia and Arvinder Singh Lovely — revealed that a lot of work on street-scaping and removing the construction debris was to be done.

Accusing Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar of “playing the RSS game”, Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) on Thursday claimed that the recent tiff between the ruling alliance partners — JD(U) and BJP — was nothing, but a “stage-managed” ploy to “confuse people” in the state ahead of assembly elections.

The Armed Forces Tribunal on Thursday dismissed a review petition filed by former Army officer Col. H.S. Kohli that sought his re-instatement in service. Col. Kohli was earlier dismissed from the Army for the “ketchup” fake kills episode. In August, 2003, officers of the 175 Field Regiment (under the 57 Mountain Division) posted in

Just over a month after he was questioned by the Goa crime branch over the mysterious death of his girlfriend Nadia Torrado, former Goa tourism minister Mr Mickky Pacheco was finally arrested on Thursday amidst high drama.

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the petition of a British scribe for transfer of her rape case from the Rajasthan high court to Delhi, but directed the state government to give her police protection when she visits the state for court hearing.