An expert has said that the NDM-1 bacteria, which are resistant to almost all antibiotics, is already three-years-old and may not be as horrible as feared.

The theme song approved by the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on Sunday for the Commonwealth Games-2010 could not be released here on Monday as some tweaking in the lyrics was required.

BlackBerry will not face a ban in India, with its makers — Canada’s Research In Motion (RIM) — agreeing to provide Indian security agencies “manual” access to its widely-used BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service from September 1. The Union home ministry has sought “direct” access to BBM for the security agencies, and RIM is

The police firing on agitating farmers in Uttar Pradesh protesting against forcible land acquisition rocked both Houses of Parliament on Monday, with most non-BSP parties trooping to the well to seek action against erring state officials.

With some ministers divided over the timing of a threefold increase in the salaries of members of Parliament, the government on Monday deferred a decision on the matter. But this led legislators, cutting across party lines, to join forces to protest against the decision to stall a hike in their salary and perks.

Union minister Farooq Abdullah, making light of the shoe-throwing incident of Sunday, said his son, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, has joined an elite club of leaders who have all had shoes flung at them.

The spotlight falls on Asian cinema as the Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac), which celebrates 20 years of its inception, holds “Imaging Asia” in New Delhi from August 18 to 22. Spread across Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Instituto Cervantes, Alliance Française, the India Habitat Centre and the India

In a suspected robbery attempt by criminals on a prowl in the national capital, a businessman was assaulted by four unidentified youths in Nihal Vihar area of west Delhi on Monday morning, sparking communal tension in the area.

A 21-year-old woman, carrying a beret of the Uttar Pradesh police, was found dead under highly mysterious circumstances in Dhaula Kuan area of south west Delhi on Monday morning.

The Delhi government has not been able to fill the required posts of the doctors before the Commonwealth Games. Digvijay Yagya, a non-profit government body has claimed that while the Delhi Health Services has not been able to fill the required posts of the doctors nor the Central Health Services is efficient enough to cater to the