The Delhi government has issued notices to over six schools for asking about parents’ education as it is against the Right to Education Act. The government has instructed the schools to abide by the norms else their admission
process would be cancelled.

Kishwar Desai’s novel Witness the Night has won the 2010 Costa Book Awards, one of UK’s prestigious literary prizes that recognises great writings from writers based in the UK and Ireland.

Creation of a separate Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital and keeping Andhra Pradesh united with constitutional and statutory measures for empowerment of the Telangana region are among the six options recommended by the Justice Srikrishna Committee.

A meeting of political parties from Andhra Pradesh with home minister P Chidambaram on the Telangana issue began here on Thursday.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condoled the passing away of legendary Rabindrasangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra and said that she made Tagore's treasures accessible to a wide audience.

The CBI on Tuesday registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) aga-inst unknown persons to look into possible criminal aspects, if any, to the allotment of spectrum licences since 2001.

The national capital woke up to the coldest day of the season so far on Tuesday with the minimum plummeting by nearly five degrees since Monday to 3.7ºCelsius and the maximum temperature not going beyond 12.7ºCelsius, a drop of 2ºCelsius since Monday.

Armed with the call details of his telephone conversation with slain Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare on the day the police officer was killed, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday demanded apologies from Maharashtra home minister R.R. Patil and all others who tried to brand him a “liar”.

Expressing concern over recent statement given by jailed human rights activist Binayak Sen’s wife that she feels unsafe in the country, Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said there was no reason why Ms Sen or any other member of her family should feel apprehensive in India.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made certain breakthrough in the Samjhauta Express blast case of 2007 in which 68 people lost their lives.