The BJP-JMM combine is likely to get the nod for formation of a government in Jharkhand on Wednesday with the Congress indicating that it wants the political process to play itself out and feels the coalition will fall apart within a year due to internal contradictions.

The Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games 2010 continues to fail to get its projections about expenditure right.
Its grand plan to take all the 5,000-odd athletes to a trip to Taj Mahal, which is less than 200 km from the city, was supposed to have cost the OC `1.75 crore. This was the estimate in June this year.

Giving a fillip to the “Look East” policy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake a three-nation tour of Vietnam, Japan and Malaysia next month to discuss greater integration and engagement in diverse fields, particularly trade.

Intelligence agencies are probing whether the Maoists, who abducted four policemen in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district, were planning a jailbreak to free other Maoists cadres lodged in nearby jails.

Intending to avoid antagonising the competing views expressed by leaders of different political parties on the proposed Enemy Property Bill, the government on Tuesday dropped the idea of going in for a fresh ordinance to regulate such properties left behind by those who went to Pakistan during partition. It, instead, decided to bring a new bill in the next session of Parliament.

Overwhelmed by the public response to their Facebook account and helpline numbers, the Delhi police have constituted a Special Task Force (STF) to check rogue drivers, bring corrupt traffic cops to bo

Resident doctors of Safdarjung Hospital in the capital continued their strike for the second day on Wednesday, leaving hundreds of patients in a lurch.

National Advisory Council chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday voiced concern over the high dropout rate and the absence of teachers from schools in villages.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the land acquisition policy of the Uttar Pradesh government for development of projects alongside the Yamuna Expressway connecting the national capital with Agra.

Almost one-third of Indians are "utterly corrupt" and half are "borderline", the outgoing head of the country's corruption watchdog has said, blaming increased wealth for much of the problem.