The second phase of Census 2011 began on Wednesday with enumerators seeking information about the first citizen of the country, President Pratibha Patil.

Former Samajwadi party leader Amar Singh on Wednesday faced intense grilling from the Supreme Court as he sought to drop his allegations against Congress and its chief Sonia Gandhi in connection with the tapping of his phone in 2006.

Aarushi Talwar's friends on Wednesday reacted with support, shock, and a feeling of discontent to the special CBI court's ruling ordering Mr Rajesh and Ms Nupur Talwar's trial in their teenage daughte

Causing further embarrassment to the government, CVC P.J. Thomas took a new stance in the Supreme Court on Monday and questioned the competence of MPs facing serious criminal charges to legislate for the country whereas he merely faced a chargesheet in Kerala’s “politically motivated” palmolein import case.

Taking the fight against polluting plastic ahead, the environment ministry on Monday notified that plastic carry bags should be of a minimum thickness of 40 microns and will not be given free of cost to consumers. The new Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2011 announced on Monday will replace the earlier Recycled

Concerned over high food inflation, the government has asked the states to timely intervene to check the prices of essential commodities.
Addressing a meeting of food ministers of the north zone states on Monday, Union minister of state for food, consumer affairs and public distribution K.V. Thomas said the states should ensure adequate availability of stocks in the open market by reviewing the stock limits of the commodities from time to time.

A Class 11 girl student was allegedly abducted and gangraped by three youth in R.K. Puram area of south Delhi, the police said on Monday.
The accused have been identified as Mohit Pal, the victim’s neighbour and friend, Sharad Kumar and Amit, the police said. The victim, who studies in a private school at

Refusing to enlarge the horizon of the issue of homosexuality legalised by the Delhi high court in a landmark verdict by striking down Section 377 of the IPC to the extent it applied to gay relationships, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition for making the three arms of defence forces as parties to the case reviewing the validity of the HC order of 2009.

The scene in Egypt is changing and there is now a possibility of a transition to a new form of state-power, though its character is far from pre-ordained.
Much would depend on power struggle or compromise between the two most organised and effective forces in the country — the Army and the Islamist radicals (the Muslim Brotherhood) — the barracks and the mosque.

The Centre is planning to seek a review of the Supreme Court order that members of banned groups cannot be treated as criminals till they indulge in violence, saying police cannot wait for them to carry out terror acts. A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court had recently held that mere membership of a banned group will not make a person a criminal unless he resorts to violence or incites people to violence or creates public disorder by violence or incitement to violence