Will US security personnel and air traffic controllers be present at the air traffic control towers in Delhi and Mumbai when US Air Force One carrying President Barack Obama lands or takes off at these airports?

Ahead of the high-profile visit of US President Barack Obama and the upcoming festive season, the home ministry on Monday asked states, especially Maharashtra, Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir governments to beef up security during the period to avert possible terror strikes.

West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday crossed swords over the Maoist issue. Mr Bhattacharjee accused Ms Banerjee of being hand in gloves with the rebels while she alleged that the CPI(M) cadres were killing people and blaming the Maoists.
Desperate to find support in Jangalmahal ahead of the next Assembly polls, the arch-rivals addressed separate rallies in Bankura and Purulia.

Having completed its four-day visit to the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, Dileep Padgaonkar who heads the interlocutors team constituted by the Centre has said that the team will be willing to meet the separatist Hurriyat leaders whenever they want to meet it.

The Rajasthan anti-terrorist squad (ATS) has named a senior RSS leader in the chargesheet in connection with the 2007 Ajmer blast in Rajasthan, a development that could have far-reaching ramifications. The RSS and the BJP, however, have trashed the development, saying it is a “political conspiracy” by the ruling dispensation.
According to the 806-page chargesheet Indresh Kumar, the RSS leader, was present at a secret meeting, along with six other functionaries of the saffron outfit, at a Gujarati guest house in Jaipur on October 31, 2005.

Jammu and Kashmir interlocutor Mr Dileep Padgaonkar along with other team members, academician Radha Kumar and Central Information Commissioner M.M. Ansari, would reach Srinanagar on Saturday and meet the separatists to kickstart the peace dialogue. This would be the first visit of the team of interlocutors to the strife-

In a bizarre accident, two schoolboys were killed and three others seriously injured when a police constable, while demonstrating his loaded carbine to the students, fired the weapon by mistake on Wednesday.

India warded off hundreds of cyber attacks during the CWG as government officials revealed that persistent efforts were made by hackers in China to target the official CWG website and penetrate the co

In the first instance of any leader facing a trial of strength in the Legislative Assembly twice in four days, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will go through another trust vote on the invitation of state governor H.R. Bhardwaj on Thursday, a move which provided a new turn to the much-complicated political situation in the southern state.

India summoned the New Zealand high commissioner on Thursday to lodge a strong protest against the racist remarks made by a TV presenter about Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit. It asked the NZ government to take immediate demonstrative action against the individual.