National-level volleyball player Arunima Sinha, alias Sonu, who lost a leg after being pushed off a moving train, has now been taken to Delhi for further treatment.
Union sports minister Ajay Maken and UPCC president Rita Bahuguna Joshi met the girl and her family at the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University in Lucknow with a team of doctors and the girl’s family insisted that she should be shifted to Delhi for further and advanced treatment.

Home minister P. Chidambaram is all set to campaign for the Congress-Trinamul alliance in West Bengal next week. Government sources said that Mr Chidambaram has shared a set of dates around April 24 and 26, with Congress general secretary in charge of West Bengal, Shakeel Ahmed, and may soon be travelling to the Marxist bastion to participate in the electoral campaign.

The main Opposition BJP on Monday termed Cabinet secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar’s report on Isro-Devas deal as a “glaring lapse of the political leadership of the party presently ruling the nation”.

Aviation regulator DGCA, which has come under the scanner over the fake pilot licenses issue, has stripped one of its top officials off his responsibilities following charges against him of influencing an airline to employ his daughter, who had failed pilot test.

The CBI, which is preparing to file second chargesheet in the 2G spectrum scam case on April 25, has still not found certain crucial documents that are required to establish the chain of events in the irregularities committed in awarding Unified Access Service (UAS) licences during the tenure of A. Raja as Union telecom minister.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred its hearing on the issue of legalisation and decriminalisation of gay sex among consenting adults in private.

A convicted rapist on parole and his friend battered to death two young widows in Haryana’s Bhiwani district late on Sunday night.
The police arrested Naresh Kumar who is serving jail time for rape and Subhash after they attacked and killed Suman (35) and Shakuntala (40) in full view of residents in Bhiwani’s Ranila Village. Eyewitnesses told the police the two men began thrashing the women with wooden staffs and kept battering them until they fell dead.

The government on Tuesday notified its decision to allow five lakh tonnes of sugar exports, nearly a month after its approval by the panel of ministers.

Celebrated human rights activist Binayak Sen, who is serving life sentence on charges of sedition, was on Monday evening released from Raipur Central jail.
The 61-year-old paediatrician stepped out of the jail exactly at 7 pm amidst slogans in his support by hundreds of his admirers, who were waiting outside the prison since morning to receive him.

The APMC bill, which seeks to provide effective regulation in marketing of agricultural produces as well as establishment of proper marketing system in Uttarakhand, has received assent from governor margaret alva.