India’s two prominent Islamic helplines are discouraging young callers, especially women, from creating profiles and posting pictures on popular social networking websites Facebook and Twitter on the ground that it is unIslamic.

A 22-year-old woman has approached the Delhi high court seeking directions to the concerned authorities to allot her a PAN card after accepting her application form with the name of her mother instead of that of her father, who had abandoned her and her mother when she was only seven months old.

Jammu and Kashmir minister of state for home Sajad Kitchloo Monday submitted his resignation to chief minister Omar Abdullah pending judicial inquiry into Kishtwar communal violence.

No-confidence motion, the powerful weapon used in Parliament against the government of the day, has virtually become irrelevant in the current 15th Lok Sabha so far.

In what became high voltage police drama, a police head constable from the west region police recently called the control room to seek permission to commit suicide after his senior officer allegedly harassed and humiliated him over unknown reasons.

Over 7,000 sugarcane farmers in Puri, Khurda and Nayagarh districts are staring at a bleak future as some unscrupulous elements have seized Nayaagarh Sugar Complex Limited (NSCL), a private sugar mill located on the outskirts of Nayagarh town, nearly 100 km from here.

BJP Monday charged the Jammu and Kashmir government with playing politics on the Kishtwar riots and cautioned that this was another Pakistan design in which separatist forces were involved.

All front-ranking Congress leaders from Madhya Pradesh on Sunday addressed a huge Congress rally here and gave a call for overthrowing the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led state BJP government in the coming Assembly election.

Being afflicted by polio that left both legs crippled at a tender age might mean end of active life for most, but not for 42-year-old D. Ravi who has set his eyes on a gruelling 24-hour drive to Delhi from here in a modified SUV to focus on mobility issues of differently abled.

Against the backdrop of recent incursions by Chinese troops into India, the two countries are working to conclude a new border defence agreement with an aim of signing it when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh travels to Beijing possibly in October.