Farmers should not be forced to vacate their land for development projects, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said, advocating adequate compensation for them.

Complaining about 'woefully inadequate,' allotment of Haj quota to the state, Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Saturday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to enhance the number.

Pakistan express fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar Saturday paid tribute to pace rival Brett Lee who has announced his retirement from international cricket, saying the Australian was a fierce competitor. The 35-year-old Lee said Friday he was quitting, ending a glorious career that was marred by injury problems.

The Uttar Pradesh State Women Commission has sought a report from Baghpat district administration on diktats issued by a village panchayat banning love marriages and not allowing women below 40 years to go to market alone.

The vexed Belgaum issue flared up again on Thursday with Mahara-shtra Assembly adopting a resolution demanding disputed areas there be declared a Union Territory till a Supreme Court verdict on the bo

Home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday deprecated the issuing of diktats against women by a 'khap' panchayat in Baghpat and said that he expected the Uttar Pradesh government to take action against those who try to enforce such 'illegal' orders.

India has a good track record of women political participation and the success of panchayats has often been referred to as a 'silent revolution' within the democratic decentralisation process, a senior US diplomat said here on Friday.

Jagadish Shettar became the third Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader to head the party government in four years after he was sworn in as Karnataka chief minister on Thursday.

Amid shocking visuals of ward boys playing doctors in a Bulandshahar hospital, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday 'removed' the Chief Medical Superintendent and suspended a ward boy of the government facility.

The crime branch officers Wednesday said Parvez Tak, along with the watchman of the Igatpuri farmhouse, hit all the six victims on their skulls causing multiple fractures.