In a damning indication of the role of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai, Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley has told his interrogators that Pakistan’s ISI had paid between Rs 20-25 lakhs to the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba to purchase a boat which terrorists used to travel from Karachi to the

Regretting that home secretary G.K. Pillai was not “defended” by external affairs minister S.M. Krishna after Mr Pillai was bracketed with JuD chief and an accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack Hafiz Saeed by Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi, the main Opposition BJP on Friday demanded that the government should

The Enforcement Directorate, probing the multi-crore hawala racket involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and his former Cabinet colleagues, on Friday attached properties of his two former ministers in Jharkhand.

The Survey of India in a fresh report to the Supreme Court has accused the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh governments of not cooperating with its team in demarcation of the disputed mines.

The Supreme Court on Friday said a clear no to give special priority to the mining case of Reddy brothers and other leaseholders in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka with the Chief Justice announcing drastic overhaul of the decade-old procedure to deal with the forest and environment cases.

With the battle between Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj and the BJP getting worse with each passing day, reports suggest that the Reddy brothers controversy has fuelled a division within the BJP itself. To ease the growing tension in the state over the issue, state chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on late Friday night reached Delhi to meet with the party top brass.

The legal brains of the JD(U) and BJP in Bihar are preparing their defence after the Patna high court ordered a CBI probe into the alleged irregular withdrawal of Rs 11,412.54 crores from the state treasury between 2002-03 and 2007-08 for different welfare and development schemes without submitting the required bills to the accountant-general of Bihar.

Trying to play vote bank politics, the JD(U) on Friday appeared to be soft on Maoists and blamed the Centre’s new economic policy and exploitation of tribals by corporates for the rise of Naxalites in Bihar. JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav in a press conference strongly opposed the use of the Army against Maoists.

AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Friday appreciated SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s apology to Muslims for associating with Mr Kalyan Singh, a one-time poster boy of the Sangh Parivar. However, he made it clear that the Congress would not have any alliance with the SP even after the apology and will go alone in the coming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

The Union human resources development ministry is likely to oppose the recent recommendation of the directors of the Indian Institutes of Technology of a two-tier entrance exam structure for the institutes.