Rising inflation, input costs, oil prices and steep interest rates are the major issues that are threatening the growth momentum of the Indian economy, a top Hero Group official said.

Sri Satya Sai Baba’s condition deteriorated on Wednesday making his doctors edgy and spreading panic among his devotees.
In view of Baba’s sinking health, the state government put Puttaparthi and Anantapur district on high alert. A four-level security blanket has also been thrown around

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh said on Thursday that he will answer Lokpal bill drafting committee co-chair Shanti Bhushan's defamation notice in court.

Prof. Rajni Abbi of the BJP was formally elected as Delhi mayor but not before the Congress questioning her taking up an office of profit as a DU associate professor. There was no voting for the post of deputy chairman as Congress candidate agreed that the result of the mayoral election be taken as the basis for election of BJP

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday asked separatists to take a cue from the "courage" of former Hurriyat chairman Maulana Abbas Ansari and step forward for talks as there was no alternative to dialogue in finding a lasting solution to Kashmir issue.

Even as the Rajya Sabha chairman appointed inquiry committee probing the impeachment motion charges against Sikkim high court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran was awaiting his reply to a set of 16 charges against him, he has raised questions on the panel itself seeking removal of senior advocate P.P. Rao from it.

Divisions within the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over the probe into the 2G spectrum scam came to fore again on Thursday with members from the ruling UPA and Opposition parties airing their differences over examining more people and preparation of a report on the matter.

The DDA on Wednesday clarified that the allegations that four persons of a family have been allotted flats under the DDA Housing Scheme-2010 were untrue as these four persons belonged to different families.

Under attack from Arunachal Pradesh government over airworthiness of its fleet after the Tawang helicopter crash that claimed 17 lives, state-owned Pawan Hans on Thursday said its choppers were properly maintained and had the necessary certification to fly.

An unexpected meeting between the Centre’s interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir and prominent separatist leader and Shia cleric Maulvi Abbas Ansari here on Wednesday has set off fresh crisis in the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference.