A Ph.D. scholar of the Delhi University, who is accused of blackmailing and outraging the modesty of a civil services aspirant, has to spent at least 12 days in Tihar jail, despite being granted bail by a Delhi court as he could not furnish a surety and personal bond of `50,000 each.

In a shocking case of allegedly apathy by the Delhi and railway police personnel, the body of a 60-year-old man was left unattended for around 11 hours due to a jurisdiction dispute involving two police stations and the railway police.

A 25-year-old employee of a private firm was injured on Friday morning when a luxury car hit a cyclist on the Bus Rapid Transit corridor near Chirag Delhi flyover.
Police officials said the incident took place at around 7.50 am on the BRT corridor when the victim, Sunil, a resident of Tigri Extension in Khanpur, was going to his office o

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that Naxalism and left-wing extremism were the greatest threats to our national security, but also warned that the Indian State “cannot and will not allow its

The Supreme Court ruling spelling out the rights of women in “live-in” relations created a controversy of sorts in the court on Friday with a senior woman law officer of the Centre lodging her protest with the bench that delivered the verdict on the use of certain expressions which she termed “derogatory” to women.

US President Barack Obama is planning a 20-minute speech to MPs in the historic Central Hall of Parliament here on November 8. A teleprompter will be used for the first time in the Indian Parliament on the occasion.

In the run up to US President Barack Obama’s visit to India, security agencies have got information that Pakistan-based militant outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Jaish-e- Mohammad and Al Badr are planning to unleash violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Nearly 80 militants armed with sophisticated weapons are waiting across the Line of

Jammu and Kashmir interlocutor Mr Dileep Padgaonkar along with other team members, academician Radha Kumar and Central Information Commissioner M.M. Ansari, would reach Srinanagar on Saturday and meet the separatists to kickstart the peace dialogue. This would be the first visit of the team of interlocutors to the strife-

In a major face off between the government and the main Opposition BJP over Jammu and Kashmir, home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday rejected the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley’s remark that the Centre “chose to look other way” at a time when Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani talked about “azadi” at a function here on Thursday.

The BJP on Friday clarified that its rebel MLAs in Karnataka, who were disqualified by the Assembly Speaker, were no more in the party fold.
The party also denied that it was luring Congress and JD(S) legislators through horse-trading.