Amidst anxieties about possible job loss for Indian workers in Saudi Arabia due to the new labour policy of that country, Nitaqat, Union minister of state for external affairs E. Ahamed held a meeting on Friday with Saudi deputy foreign minister Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Abdulla Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud on the sidelines of the 11th Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) ministerial meeting at Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

With the DMK withdrawing its support to the UPA, the Indian Union Muslim League headed by Union minister of state for external affairs E. Ahamed is in the horns of a dilemma.

With Union railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal all set to present the Rail Budget in Parliament on Tuesday, at least one of the ministry’s biggest projects, the Jammu-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link won’t be worried over fund allocation.

Amidst clamour for his resignation over his alleged involvement in the Suryanelli sex scandal case, Rajya Sabha deputy chairman P.K. Kurien ruled out resignation and pleaded his “innocence” in a letter drafted to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Even as the Left parties stepped up pressure for his stepping down, the Congress core group on Friday discussed the matter in the wake of fresh revelations against Mr Kurien.

Amidst intensified campaign demanding an early decision on the Telangana issue, AP CM Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday held consultations with the Congress leadership, including AICC president Sonia Gandhi. Speculation was rife on the day that the Congress is likely to put out its roadmap on Telangana very soon.

Hours after a special court framed charges against the five accused in the Delhi gang rape case on Saturday, Cong-ress president Sonia Gandhi and newly-elected party vice-president Rahul Gandhi drove to the 23-year-old victim’s house in a lower-middle class residential colony in West Delhi.

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Friday went into denial mode about an internal inquiry report of his party’s Kerala unit indicting senior leader V.S. Achuthanandan.

The two Italian Marines facing trial over shooting two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast reported to the Chanakyapuri police station here on Saturday.

The two Italian Marines facing trial over shooting two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast reported to the Chanakyapuri police station here on Saturday. The Marines were brought from Kochi to Delhi late on Friday night by an Air India flight after the Supreme Court ruled that their trial would take place in a special court.

The two Italian Marines facing trial over shooting two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast reported to the Chanakyapuri police station here on Saturday. The Marines were brought from Kochi to Delhi late on Friday night by an Air India flight after the Supreme Court ruled that their trial would take place in a special court.