A four-year-old girl was found with her throat slit and her mother and younger brother were allegedly poisoned by unidentified assailants at their rented residence in Baljeet Nagar area of central Delhi on Monday evening.

At a time when every efforts are being made by the judiciary to reduce the huge burden of pendency, the Supreme Court has decried the tendency among a class of litigants to indulge in protracted legal battles merely to harass the other side by filing repeated petitions on the same issue.

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the West Bengal government on Tuesday agreed on a broad range on points for the setting up of a Gorkha Interim Authority, which is temporarily being called the Gorkhland Autonomous Authority (GAA). While the standoff between the GJM and the West Bengal government over the jurisdiction of the

Even as the Karnataka police finally arrests PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani in connection with the July 2008 Bengaluru bomb blasts, he made a last ditch effort to get pre-arrest bail from the Supreme Court, which expressed its inability to entertain his petition as it was rendered infructuous with his arrest.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that India will prefer to voluntarily surrender the grant it receives from United Kingdom if the British government decided on cutting it. He said that New Delhi has “made it clear” to the Cameron administration that “we will voluntarily surrender” aid should the UK decide to cut it.

The government on Tuesday announced that the DGCA has issued regulations to prevent fictitious booking by airlines and travel agents. “Under relevant regulations, violations due to fictitious bookings and abusive ticketing practice is a punishable offence ... maximum penalty of six months imprisonment of Rs 2 lakh fine or both can

The government on Tuesday conceded that “large-scale” illegal mining is taking place in various states. It also said that this could lead to a nexus between criminal and anti-national elements, especially in Naxal-affected areas.

The CPI(M) on Tuesday said it was not correct for members of Parliament to decide on their own salaries and demanded creation of a separate mechanism for the purpose. The CPI(M) said that it was against the “normal political morality” for MPs to themselves decide on their pay structure.

The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Personal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, seeking amendments in the Guardians and Wards Act (GWA), 1890 and the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (HAMA) of 1956. The bill allows the mother along with the father to be appointed as a natural guardian and also aims at removing hurdles in the way of a married woman to adopt.

The Centre on Tuesday assured compensation to those affected by the oil spill resulting from the collision of the two ships off Mumbai coast early this month maintaining that “polluter must pay” principle is being implied. “Polluter must pay and polluter will pay,” environment minister Jairam Ramesh told the Rajya Sabha in reply to a short duration question on the oil spill.