The food ministry is not sure whether the states would revamp the ailing targeted public distribution system (TPDS), integral to the success of the proposed National Food Security Act.

If airlines default on timely take-off of flights, passengers could soon face severe flight delays. The government has now ordered the implementation, in phases, of an earlier DGCA order that stipulated that if an aircraft failed to avail of its flight slot on time, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) will only give it permission to take-off based on

As questions are being raised on the anti-dowry laws on the ground that they are being “misused” to fix husbands and their family members, the Supreme Court in an important judgement has revisited the entire jurisprudence on the issue and held that the concept of these legislations is based on “deemed fiction” which otherwise is not applicable in the criminal justice system.

One male tiger was relocated from the Ranthambore National Park in Sawai Madhopur to the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar on Tuesday. The tiger T-12 was tranquilised on Tuesday in Kundla area in Ranthambore, put in a special cage and taken to Sariska amid tight security. A female tigress, also from Ranthambore National Park, is expected to join the tiger in the reserve in the next few weeks.

With the Bombay high court deciding to book Malegaon blast accused under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), investigating agencies, including Rajasthan ATS, which are probing Ajmer, Mecca Masjid and Malegaon blasts, are likely to probe the connections of Swami Dayanand Pandey, alleged co-conspirator in Malegaon blast, with his large number of sympathisers based in the PoK.

A week before the expiry of the stipulated 90-day period, the Delhi police on Tuesday filed chargesheet against beleaguered diplomat Madhuri Gupta, accusing her of passing classified information to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operative, Jamshed, alias Jim, and Mubshar Raza Rana, an ISI official.

India cautioned the international community on Tuesday against selective counter-terrorism saying terrorism could not be compartmentalised as there were many terrorist outfits in region and beyond that were as vicious as the Al Qaeda.

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna has said that 26/11 co-conspirator David Coleman Headley’s confessions were in the public domain and Pakistan could not brush them under the carpet.

Virtually gagging its officials from speaking to the media “directly” on official matters, the Union home ministry on Tuesday appointed D.R.S. Choudhary, its additional secretary (Naxal management) as the “‘official spokesperson”.

Without naming Pakistan, national security adviser Shivshankar Menon on Tuesday said the terrorist groups’ links to “the official establishment and with existing intelligence agencies” was getting stronger.