A statement issued by the government after the Cabinet Committee on Security meeting on Monday said the Centre’s intention was to restart the dialogue process with different sections of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The CCS meeting had set off speculation that the government could consider a partial withdrawal of the AFSPA. The official statement, however, did not mention that law.

In the wake of the violence that has been rocking the Kashmir Valley, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday reached out to the “youth of Kashmir”, saying they were Indian citizens and that their grievances have to be addressed. He said the government was willing to talk to every group that abjures violence, but made it clear that the

Amid attempts of Lalu Prasad Yadav-led RJD to win upper caste voters, particularly Rajputs and Bhumihars, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is gearing up to reach out to Muslims in a big way to offset the losses in the October-November Bihar Assembly elections. The JD(U)’s aggressive canvassing for the Muslim votes has already created a flutter in the state BJP ranks, though the two parties are jointly contesting the polls.

The Narendra Modi issue continues to keep the BJP-JD(U) alliance on the edge, with a flip-flop by senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on the likelihood of Mr Modi campaigning in Bihar.

A Class 3 student of Amity International School in Mayur Vihar was strangled to death by his aunt who held the father of deceased responsible for her matrimonial dispute.
The accused, identified as Shivangi alias Neena, walked into the Krishna Nagar police station at around 6 pm on Sunday and confessed that she had strangulated her b

A 65-year-old woman was drugged and robbed in a bus near the Commonwealth Games building in the heart of the city, police sources said on Monday.
The victim, Inderjeet Narang, a retired employee of Union health ministry, told the police that she had gone to State Bank of Patiala near Shastri Bhawan. “At around 3 pm, she boarded a bus from near the CWG office. She was probably drugged and robbed in the bus,” a police source said.

The doctors at Jai Prakash Narayan Trauma Centre, AIIMS, conducted a rare surgery on a 30-year-old man from Mathura who had a rod pierced from the space between eye and nose through spinal cord.

A division bench comprising Justices P. Sathasivam and A.R. Dave of the Supreme Court on Monday reserved its verdict after hearing the petition filed by senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, challenging the initiation of criminal proceedings against him for his alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases.
The apex court concluded the hearing on the appeal of the accused, Kumar.

The Yamuna still flows over the danger mark and its level may rise by Tuesday on account of more than 2 lakh cusecs of water being released from the Hathnikund barrage since Sunday evening.

The number of dengue cases in the city continue to rise constantly but seem to have stabilised with nearly 70 cases being reported on a daily basis. However, civic agencies feel that the “plateauing” of dengue figures was not a matter of relief as a second wave was likely to hit once the water begins receding from the areas which have been inundated by the waters from the overflowing Yamuna.