Government will find out how the draft report of the Public Accounts Committee was leaked before it was discussed among its members, Union information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni said on Thursday.

The campaign to ban endosulfan is gaining momentum even as India is striving hard to persuade the ongoing conference of 172 countries to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants to postpone this decision by another year.

Twelve people, including eight students and two lecturers of a private management institute, were on Thursday killed and 22 others injured in a head-on collision between a college bus and a truck in the district, the police said.

A 1984 victim of the anti-Sikh riots has been branded a notorious terrorist’s wife by none other than H.S. Hanspal, a member of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM). Nirpreet Kaur, a crucial witness against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in an ‘84 riots case has been described thus by Mr Hanspal after a TV news channel recently aired a “sting” operation in which he is seen allegedly trying to influence her to save the Congress leader.

The Centre on Thursday agreed to allow 65 Pakistani nationals, who are lodged in Tihar Jail here for not having valid travel documents, to stay in the country for another three months.

The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna on Wednesday reserved their order in the petition filed against the inclusion of Mr Anna Hazare in the drafting committee of the Jan Lokpal Bill.

A Supreme Court bench on Thursday recused itself from hearing Sikkim high court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran's plea seeking stay of pre-impeachment probe by a Rajya Sabha-appointed committee into allegations of misconduct and corruption against him.

An embattled Iqbal Singh, the lieutenant governor of Puducherry who is being probed by the ED for having recommended the swift issuance of a passport to Hasan Ali, accused of stashing away huge amounts of black money abroad, met Union home minister P. Chidambaram yet again on Wednesday.

Muhammad Yasin Malik, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), was held here on Thursday after protests following the arrest of a local.

DMK chief M. Karunanidhi, while presenting his case in support of his daughter before a high-level party committee that included his two sons, M.K. Stalin and M.K. Alagiri, and grand-nephew Dayanidhi Maran, was careful not to directly criticise the CBI and his Congress ally even as he expressed “surprise” that his daughter, Ms