Anna Hazare and his organisation, India Against Corruption, has made it into the American spy agency CIA’s World Factbook as a political pressure group in India, joining the league of the RSS, Bajrang

His watch stopped on June 11, 1991. After spending two decades in jail, Perarivalan — one of the death-row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case — found 2011 was a rollercoaster ride. This year he almost walked to the gallows and was saved only by a series of interventions.

As many as six persons have succumbed to a mysterious disease in Bageshwari village in Bihar’s Munger district since late Tuesday night, according to a district medical official.

A woman here died of infection caused by a bundle of cotton gauze mistakenly left in her stomach during a family planning surgery, allegedly conducted by an ENT specialist in a government hospital in a Chhattisgarh district nearly three weeks ago, officials said on Wednesday.

Indian Navy is set to receive a major boost when the much-awaited Russian Nerpa nuclear attack submarine would join its fleet “in the next few days” on a 10-year lease worth $920 million.

The elusive Ulfa chief, Paresh Baruah, is trying to act as a bridge between the underground organisations of Northeast and China.
Disclosing that Ulfa chief was not in Ruli areas of Bhutan, authoritative security sources told this newspaper that Ulfa chief informed his close confidants about his plan of visiting some places in China.

The stalemate between striking doctors and the Rajasthan government continued for the seventh day on Tuesday while the agitating doctors faced public ire in different parts of the state. The strike badly hit the medical and health services across the state and it claimed more than 64 lives. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot again made an appeal to the striking doctors to resume their work and cautioned them about the rise in public anger.

Death often leaves a rude shock. That’s what it did on Tuesday. It walked away with the precious life of K. Venugopal, our senior editor. Venu, as we fondly call him, was only 42 years when the end came. However, in refulgence, he was much younger at heart.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday, launched a frontal attack on UP chief minister Mayawati when he questioned her credentials as a dalit leader and also her commitment to fight against corruption.

The elections in Uttar Pradesh in February next year will cost around Rs 300 crore and will be the most expensive election till date.