Subrata Chattop-adhyay, the senior correspondent of The Asian Age, passed away on Sunday night. Subrata, who attended office on Sunday, was to leave for Siliguri with his wife Sunita by the Darjeeling Mail.

Elections to the Assem-blies of five states, staggered across a little over a month, ended on Saturday with Uttar Pradesh and Goa joining Punjab and Uttarakhand in breaking previous records and mar-king their highest ever voter turnouts. Counting will take place March 6.

A girl student of a Chhattisgarh village on Saturday fainted in the examination centre after cycling nearly 25 km to reach there to appear the Class 10 final test, being conducted by Board of Secondary Education (BSE) of the state.

Suspected Karbi rebels on Saturday abducted a senior officer of Indian Forest Service and a ranger who went to supervise forest of Karbi Anglong hills in Assam.

Elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah is found to have been mounting pressure on its cadres to strike and demonstrate their power by carrying out grenade attacks on civilians in Assam.

A local court on Saturday rejected a plea by Zakia Jafri for making public the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on the 2002 riots, stating that the SIT had not yet submitted all the related material.

Madhya Pradesh BJP vice-president and MLA Dhruv Narain Singh was on Saturday summoned for interrogation by CBI sleuths in connection with the August 16, 2011 murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood.

With an unprecedented 81 per cent voter turnout for Saturday’s elections for the state Assembly, the anti-incumbency wave was clear in Goa.

Russia prepared on Saturday to return Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin for a record third term amid a tide of protests unseen since the Soviet era and mounting tensions with the West.

The quest for a posting close to her Borunda village, in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur district, led Bhanwari Devi to her first interaction with local politicians. Suspended Congress MLA Malkhan Singh was the first and resulted in an intimate relationship between the two. She was also a victim of child marriage.