Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday said she is still “nervous” about preparations for Commonwealth Games and sought full co-operation of people to make the mega event a grand success.

There’s still a little over a week to go before the suspended IPL commissioner fate is decided one way or the other, but the Board of Control for Cricket in India is already gearing up for life post-Lalit Modi.

On the 25th anniversary of the Kanishka bombing, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh termed the incident as a “most barbarous act”. The Prime Minister stated that terrorism must be fought and eliminated with determination and joint action.

President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday conferred the honorary rank of Group Captain of the Indian Air Force (equivalent to the rank of Colonel in the Army) on eminent cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.

A 20-year-old man was stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend on Wednesday in Ambedkar Nagar, southeast Delhi, by five unidentified assailants who are on the run.
The family members of the deceased have alleged that the deceased, Javed, was killed by family members of the girl with whom he was having an affair for the past few months.

The European Union on Wednesday called on India to join its initiative of sharing and exchanging intelligence to defeat terrorism and offered to co-operate in tackling piracy in high-seas. This was conveyed to the top Indian leadership by the visiting EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy Catherine Ashton. She is

An Army colonel was killed and a captain wounded in fresh incidents of violence in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier districts of Kupwara and Poonch. In Kupwara’s picturesque Lolab valley, the militants ambushed a group of soldiers late on Tuesday night resulting into the death of Colonel Neeraj Sood, who was the Commanding

Mr Ajit Singh might be very eager to become a Union minister but the Congress in New Delhi, as also in Lucknow, is playing it cool on the issue of the Rashtriya Lok Dal’s merger with the party.

Suggesting that there is a need for a suitable stringent law to tackle with “honour killings”, the Congress on Wednesday asked the government to show resolve in dealing with the menace.

Members of the parliamentary panel examining the controversial Nuclear Liability Bill are set to visit a nuclear plant at Kalpakkam to gain first-hand experience on operations being carried out at such facilities.