Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday expressed concern over rising prices as the food inflation, after a gap of two weeks, entered the double digits driven mainly by higher prices of essentia

The government was seeking cooperation from Blackberry maker as its services had implications for the country's internal security, minister of state for communications and IT Sachin Pilot said on Satu

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday met President Pratibha Patil and discussed the current situation in Jammu and Kashmir besides other issues.

Former Indian Police Service officer Amod Kanth is in trouble as a Delhi court on Thursday rejected the closure report of the CBI, which had given him a clean chit in the Uphaar inferno case after not

Expressing unhappiness over the states’ “apathy” towards improving the public distribution system despite repeated orders while food stocks were rotting at several places, the Supreme Court on Thursday set the states a tight deadline of one week to respond on the supply of rations to BPL and AAY families.

Giving an ultimatum to BlackBerry maker Research In Motion and telecom operators, the Centre on Thursday set August 31 as the deadline for them to allow security agencies lawful interception of two crucial services — BlackBerry Enterprise Services and BlackBerry Messenger Services, failing which the popular services will be shut down in India.

The Indian Air Force has received permission from the government to fire back at Naxalites in self-defence in case IAF helicopters are attacked, top defence sources confirmed Thursday. However, stringent conditionalities have been attached to the permission given, to prevent any collateral damage.

The government has extended the visa of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin by another year from August 2010, shifting from its earlier stand of asking her to leave the country and apply afresh to stay in the country.

The government has proposed to undertake geospatial mapping of the states with regard to the unavailability of primary, secondary and higher education institutions to ensure that no areas are left without schools and colleges.

The Union health ministry has strongly refuted the conclusions of an article in scientific journal Lancet saying that India is possibly the source of a “superbug”, a bacteria that is resistant to strongest of the antibiotics. It also objected to the naming of the drug resistant bug as New Delhi metallo-b lactamase (NDM-1).