The CBI on Friday arrested a retired chief engineer of the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) and a private person on graft charges. The accused engineer had retired just a day before he was arrested.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a bill for setting up a National Council for Human Resources in Health will be introduced in Parliament soon to address issues of quality, quantity and equitable distribution of medical education resources. Praising the controversial Valiathan Committee report, the prime minister said that a more ambitious vision was needed. Addressing students at the 38th convocation ceremony of the All India Institute of Medical Resources, he said, “After extensive

The BJP is feeling “vindicated” after the Ayodhya title suit verdict. Sources said the BJP core group, which met after the verdict was announced, was of the opinion that the situation ended honourably for it and the “mere fact that mainstream India accepted the verdict in such a matured manner was proof of the BJP’s vindication.” Most of the senior party leaders on Friday were looking relaxed.

Why has the Allahabad high court come up with a judgment of “conciliatory” nature in the highly sensitive Ayodhya case? The question has been aptly answered by it by describing the disputed land as “landmines” with serious consequences for the country and its people.

Coalition politics has forced the BJP to delete the name of leader and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi from the list of party leaders who would campaign during the Bihar Assembly polls. The name of Mr Varun Gandhi, BJP MP from Pilibhit, is also missing from the list submitted to the Election Commission.

A 24-year-old MBA is feared dead after she allegedly jumped into the Yamuna from the ITO Bridge on Friday evening. She was apparently depressed over not being able to get a job after completing her course.

Delhi health minister Kiran Walia has alleged that the whistleblowers in the case of sexual abuse of three minors by a cab driver are facing threat from the police. Demanding the suspension of the station house officer (SHO) of the Prasad Nagar police station, she said that she would seek intervention of the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) in the case.

Delhi Commonwealth Games organisers are banking on combining the glitz of Bollywood with the aura and colour of India’s ancient culture to offset the miserable build-up to the event that is to be held

Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was on Saturday fondly remembered on his 141st birth anniversary with leaders cutting across political lines paying homage to him.

When not practising, almost every foreign athlete staying at the Commonwealth Games Village here is like any other tourist visiting India they have heard about and are itching to see the Taj Mahal, ba