The main Opposition BJP on Thursday said it was committed to formation of a Telangana state, irrespective of the suggestions given by the Justice Srikrishna Committee on the statehood demand. The party maintained that it would come out with a detailed response on the issue after the Centre holds a meeting with eight

Air Marshal N A K Browne, an ace fighter pilot, will on Saturday take over as the Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force succeeding Air Marshal P K Barbora, who retires on Friday.

In an effort to curb cross border illegal activities, India and Myanmar have ratified the mutual legal assistance treaty on criminal matters.

Union home secretary Gopal K Pillai and Myanmar deputy minister for home affairs U Phone Swe signed the protocol of exchange for the treaty at the conclusion of the 16th home secretary-level meeting between India and Myanmar here last night.

In the wake of strong feelings expressed over seeking closure of the Aarushi murder case, Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily today called on CBI Director A.P. Singh and discussed with him the possibility of reinvestigating the case.
Moily's move comes two days after CBI filed a closure report in a Ghaziabad court in the case on the ground there was no available evidence at the crime scene to pursue the probe, which invited a lot of media criticism.

The Union Cabinet is expected to take up the issue of equity infusion of `1,200 crores from the government to Air India on Thursday and could also examine a proposal for pay harmonisation and rank rationalisation between employees of the unified national carrier.

The CBI, which is investigating various cases of alleged corruption in the preparations for the Delhi Commonwealth Games (CWG), has called CWG organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi for questioning. He is expected to appear before the agency on Monday.

With the Srikrishna Committee set to submit its report on the contentious issue of statehood for Telangana, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday reviewed the political and security situation in Andhra Pradesh with his senior Cabinet colleagues. The Congress, meanwhile, reiterated that it is not against smaller states.

India’s premier investigative agency, the CBI, has failed to solve the two-and-a-half-year-old Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. After investigating the gruesome double murder of the 14-year-old daughter of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, the CBI on Wednesday filed a closure report before a Ghaziabad court citing lack of evidence against the suspects.

On the lines of an alert issued in the US, the Indian Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has also issued an alert to all Indian airports that terrorists may try to conceal explosives in thermos flasks, top government aviation sources confirmed to this newspaper late on Wednesday evening. “The BCAS alert on thermos flasks has been

The BJP on Wednesday claimed that there was no contradiction between its demand for JPC probe into 2G spectrum allocation scam and its senior leader M.M. Joshi, who is heading the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).