Justin Roberts, a bespectacled man playing the guitar and singing songs about relationships and facing rough patches of life, is now a rage among teenagers across the globe.

After landing in hot waters with his party for writing to Congress MPs seeking to mobilise them against the caste-Census, Union minister of state for home, Ajay Maken on Tuesday “took stock of the ongoing house-listing and Census enumeration exercise in New Delhi”. The MoS undertook an “on-the-spot, in field interaction with Census officials, enumerators and people in general” in the R.K. Puram area of New Delhi.

The much-awaited talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the separatist outfits in Jammu and Kashmir took place on Tuesday. Earlier on Monday, the Prime Minister had pledged his government’s commitment to implement the recommendations of the five working groups he had formed after three round table conferences held in 2006 and 2007.

The parliamentary standing committee on science and environment on Tuesday discussed the controversial Nuclear Liability Bill in view of the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict.
In the committee’s first meeting on the Nuclear Liability Bill, its members raised questions over the Rs 500 crores cap proposed on compensation to be paid by the operator in the event of an accident involving an atomic plant.

Refuting charges that the probe of India’s premier investigating into the Bhopal gas tragedy was “influenced”, former CBI director Joginder Singh on Tuesday said that there was “no pressure” on the agency at all.

The spurt in cases of dalit atrocities in Uttar Pradesh has started giving anxious moments to the ruling BSP government in the state.
According to party sources, the BSP leadership is “deeply concerned” over the trend which, it feels, could cause irreparable damage to its base dalit vote bank. “Despite t

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Tuesday said that with “the IPL fraud”, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar’s political career has taken a major hit. Mr Thackeray claimed that the Congress is using the IPL to marginalise Mr Pawar’s influence in the national politics as well as in Maharashtra and there will be new allegations hurled at Mr Pawar every day on the behest of the Congress.

Union law and justice minister M. Veerappa Moily dubbed the Bhopal gas verdict as an example of “justice delayed and denied”.

With the date for withdrawal coming to an end on Monday evening in Andhra Pradesh, four Congress nominees, including Union minister Jairam Ramesh and former state chief minister N.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is completing a month in office this week, on Monday again warned over drastic spending cuts facing the country and blamed the previous Labour government for