Fake pilot license scam: Senior DGCA official sacked
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.
SC defers hearing on decriminalisation of gay sex
The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred its hearing on the issue of legalisation and decriminalisation of gay sex among consenting adults in private.
More Indians evacuated from civil war-torn Ivory Coast
A group of 44 Indians have been evacuated from Abidjan, the capital of civil war-torn Ivory Coast, to neighbouring Ghana, taking the total number of Indians who have been shifted in last one week to 110.
Smear campaign against civil society members: Hazare
Anna Hazare on Monday wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the "smear" campaign launched against civil society members of the joint drafting committee on Lokpal Bill and asked her to advise her "colleagues" not to try to derail the process of drafting of law.
Supreme Court dismisses plea on disclosure of religion of Sonia Gandhi
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the plea of a RTI applicant seeking disclosure of "religion and faith" of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her children under the Right to Information Act.
Arunima undergoes surgery for infection
National-level volleyball player Arunima Sinha aka Sonu, who lost her leg after being pushed from a moving train on Sunday underwent a surgery here due to infection in the severed limb, hospital sourc
Jaipur’s last titular maharaja dies at 80
The chief of Kachawah clan of Rajputs, Brigadier Bhawani Singh passed away late on Saturday night at a private hospital in Gurgaon.
Geelani promises safety to pandits
Dozens of activists of Jamait Ahl-e-Hadith, a religio-social organisation, along with large number of supporters took to the streets here on Sunday demanding death for the killers of its president Mou
82% turnout in Kashmir panchayat poll phase 2
Inspite of the killing of a woman candidate by unidentified gunmen ahead of the polling, the second phase of Jammu and Kashmir panchayat elections witnessed a brisk 82 per cent voter turnout on Sunday
Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani catches fire, passengers safe
Three coaches of the Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani train caught fire in the wee hours on Monday in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district.