With the rift between the UPA and its ally Trinamul Congress widening, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday skipped the inauguration by Union home minister P. Chidambaram of an NSG hub at Badu, 50 km from Kolkata.

Israel has accused Iran of being behind Monday’s car bomb blast in New Delhi. In an interview to Jehangir Ali, Delhi police commissioner B.K. Gupta said the evidence recovered so far doesn’t suggest the involvement of any foreign country

Sports is the not the only field where sportsmen are found guilty of using performance enhancing drugs. In probably first of its kind case, youth participating in the Army recruitment drive at Hisar district, Haryana, have been caught consuming banned drugs to boost their performance.

In what has created sensation across the state, a government school teacher and short-story writer Jahanvi Mahanta Rajkonwar has deserted her family — her husband and two children — to join the Ulfa.

The home ministry has asked Assam and other north-eastern states to intensify vigil on activities of Left wing insurgent group, following the reports of a Maoist’s central committee member visiting Assam.

Israel has lodged a complaint before the UN chief over the alleged terror campaign launched by Iran and its “proxy” Hezbollah against Israeli targets in recent weeks, including in India and Thailand.

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Friday asked Pakistan to resume NATO supplies that were suspended after airstrikes last year left two dozen soldiers dead, a media report said.

After Salman Khurshid, it is now Union steel minister Beni Prasad Verma who has enraged the Election Commission by raising the minority quota issue while campaigning in Uttar Pradesh, promising additional reservations for Muslims if his party is voted to power in the state.

The multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in UP claimed its sixth life on Thursday when Mahendra Sharma, a clerk with the state health department who had gone missing on February 7, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Lakhimpur district.

If the CBI investigation reveals that Mahendra Sharma and Sunil Verma had roles in the NRHM scam, the agency will definitely approach the competent authority for transfer of these two cases to the Central probe agency, sources said.