With the Union Cabinet on Tuesday clearing an ordinance aimed at protecting convicted MPs and MLAs from facing immediate disqualification after a Supreme Court order, the ruling Congress and Oppositio

It may be early days yet in the 2013 edition of the Champions League T20, but daylight is beginning to appear between the front-runners, and the rest. In Group B, Chennai Super Kings have laid down a marker with their handsome win over the Titans in Ranchi, while in Group A, with some assistance from the rain gods, the Rajasthan Royals are starting to look a good bet for a last-four berth.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday announced the formation of a special investigation cell to take over the probe into the Muzaffarnagar riots that left 49 people dead and rendered thousands homeless.

After following paper-pencil format for years, the All India Post Graduate Medical entrance (AIPGME) test for admission to all India 50 per cent quota is likely to be conducted online in December 2013.

Leading a team which has a fair sprinkling of young blood and senior pros, Cheteshwar Pujara knows he has a clear task at hand and the India A skipper is up for the challenge.

After the deadly May 25 attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh, the CPI(Maoist) is all set to step up violence in the Naxal-infested state once again in the next 2-3 months, the Union home ministry will warn states at a high-level Naxal review meeting of LWE-affected states to be chaired by home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves for the US on Wednesday in a visit that will see him holding his sixth bilateral summit with the US president and also addressing the UN General Assembly in New York.

The eight-member Pakistan judicial commission that is in Mumbai to examine Indian witnesses of the 26/11 terror attack did not cross-examine two of those witnesses on Tuesday.

The CBI on Tuesday questioned former Gujarat minister of state for home Praful Patel in connection with its probe into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.

Asserting that intelligence agencies and the Army have the right to conduct covert operations, which are above Parliament or judicial scrutiny, leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Tuesday slammed the government over the “leak” of an Army inquiry report on an intelligence unit set up former Army Chief V.K. Singh. Mr Jaitley said Prime Ministers, home ministers, defence ministers, Chief of the Army Staff, heads of IB and R&AW and several others in the government are privy to information which “must necessarily die with them”.