A first year engineering student was hospitalised after a brutal assault by four seniors as part of ragging at a government-run university campus here, police said on Friday.

As the tussle seeking disclosure of names of people who have stashed black money abroad continues in Supreme Court, the Finance Ministry says it has 'no authentic figures' about the quantum of money deposited in Swiss banks.

The committee that probed the Mangalore air crash last year was informed by a number of senior pilots that many of them (pilots) have taken a nap during flights or have seen other crew members dozing off for a while. Sleep for flight crew during flights is strictly prohibited under Indian aviation rules.

Maoist violence leading to the death of a police officer and a woman and sporadic incidents of bomb blasts, bids to capture booths and voters’ clashes with the police marked the first phase of panchayat polls in Bihar on Wednesday. An average 55 per cent voting was registered.

The controversial CD containing purported conversation between eminent lawyer Shanti Bhushan and political leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh does not seem to have been tampered with and there is continuity in the conversation, police sources said.

Man-leopard conflicts have intensified to the extent that 291 leopards were reported killed in 2010 and another 235 were killed in 2009.
With the leopard population in the country dropping to 11,000, a worried environment minister Jairam Ramesh has shot off a letter to chief ministers asking them to create a trained response team to prevent their extinction as happened in the case of the cheetah.

A fresh war of words broke out on Thursday between Amar Singh and civil society representatives after police indicated that the CD containing a purported conversation among the expelled SP leader, lawyer Shanti Bhushan and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was not tampered with.

In an all-encompassing order provoked by the growing incidence of honour crimes in Punjab and Haryana, the high court at Chandigarh, on Wednesday, directed both state governments to institutionalise systems to ensure liberty of couples who choose to marry against the wishes of their parents.

In a major breakthrough, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has discovered micro-life, not known to exist on earth’s surface, in the atmosphere, internationally acclaimed astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar disclosed here on Wednesday.