Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Monday said the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the National Commission for Women (NCW) should take note of the “atrocities” on people who had assembled at Ramlila ground in Delhi to support him.

Road traffic has been paralysed in Goa since morning, as protesters have descended on roads to enforce the “Goa bandh” over state government’s decision to grant recognition to English as a Medium of Instruction (MOI) in the primary schools.

People from different walks of life on Saturday staged demonstrations and observed fasts in Orissa to support the anti-graft campaign of Baba Ramdev in New Delhi.

Dalbir Kaur, sister of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is on death row in Pakistan, will cross over to the neighbouring country on Monday to meet her brother in Kotlakpathrai prison in Lahore.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday unveiled the National Rural Livelihood Mission to reach out to BPL families through self-help groups and said the network of such groups comprising women will be strengthened.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday named Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Rajasthan minister Rajendra Singh Rathore in its charge sheet for 2006 Dara Singh shootout case.

Meghalaya’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) unit on Friday demanded that governor R.S.Mooshahary recommend imposition of president’s rule in the state, claiming the constitutional machinery has collapsed.

Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has requested the French ambassador to India to get a copy of an old document on scientific survey of plants of Orissa available in a Paris museum, official sources said on Friday.

Stating that centre-state relations had deteriorated under the United Progressive Alliance's (UPA) regime, a Tripura minister on Wednesday alleged that the Central government was allocating funds to states based on political consideration and not on performance.

A joint secretary of city unit of RSS, Mohan Agnihotri was stabbed last night in Nandanwan area by two unidentified persons, police said on Tuesday.