Though describing India’s track record on releasing of Pakistani prisoners better than the neighbouring country, the Supreme Court on Wednesday felt that there was still the need for further improvement while directing the government to release forthwith 61 Pakistan nationals whose identity had been fully established.

One of the three members of the team of interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir, appointed by the government, has said that there is a “positive change” in the atmosphere in the state. The member, Mr M.M. Ansari, has further said that “many encouraging things are happening, lot of changes have taken place and lots of good things have taken place”. He said this shortly after the interlocutors met Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday.

The ministry of defence (MoD) on Wednesday said it had received a report from the Army’s Pune-based Southern Command on alleged illegal transfer of land to a pharmaceutical company at Kandivili, Mumbai, and added the report is “under examination” even as Army sources indicated that a CBI inquiry could be ordered.

The CBI, which is probing the 2G scam, has started collecting details of certain hawala operators based in other Indian cities, who were allegedly in touch with the two Delhi-based suspected hawala op

Senior BJP leader and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman M.M. Joshi on Wednesday said telecom minister Kapil Sibal’s remarks over CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation were “improper and against the propriety”.

The CAG, Vinod Rai, on Wednesday submitted a note of protest with the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee in connection with the statement made by Union minister Kapil Sibal, who had recently challenged the CAG findings on the 2G spectrum scam. The note reportedly mentioned that the comments of the minister with

The Congress on Wednesday sought to call the bluff of Y.S.

In the first visit by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president to China, Mr Nitin Gadkari will visit the country for five days from January 20 at the invitation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a party official said on Wednesday.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice of the Delhi high court Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna on Wednesday directed the city government to pay `3 lakhs as interim compensation within four weeks to the kin of a vegetable vendor who was injured in a road accident but allegedly died in an ambulance after being denied admission by one hospital after another.

Moved by the incident of a woman delivering baby on a pavement last year, a division bench comprising Delhi high court Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjeev Khanna on Wednesday directed the city government to provide two exclusive shelters for destitute, pregnant and lactating women within a week.