Withdrawing its former application for issuance of non-bailable warrants against accused Tahawwur Rana and David Headley, the mastermind in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, the National Investigating Agency (NIA) on

Six members of a family were killed when a four-storey building partially damaged by heavy downpours on Monday collapsed early on Wednesday in northwest Delhi’s Usmanpur area.

The four worst Naxal-affected states —Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal — will set up Unified Command structures headed by the chief secretaries of each state for better coordination among police, paramilitary and intelligence agencies. The state governments will appoint a retired major-general of the Army as a member of the Unified Command to advise the state administration on anti-Naxal operations.

Setting aside differences within, the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council recommended the rollout of the proposed National Food Security Act in a phased manner in around 160 of the poorest of poor districts or blocks, providing 35 kg of grains at Rs 3 per kg to every household.

Amazed passengers entered the glittering new integrated Terminal-3 at New Delhi’s IGI Airport for the first time ever on Wednesday even as Air India announced that it plans to build a “primary hub” at Delhi airport to “connect India with the world”.

As the executive and judiciary are grappling with the problems faced by the subordinate courts in the country, the Supreme Court has taken a serious view of the high court administration not even recording the “confidential reports” of the judicial officers in time leading to various complications regarding their confirmation, promotion and other service-related issues.

Activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan will be proceeded with a contempt of court case by the SC on its suo moto motion for casting aspersion against Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia, some former CJIs and judges in a media interview. A three-judge bench comprising Justices Altamas Kabir, Cyriac Joseph and H.L. Dattu rejected the

In the run-up to US President Barack Obama’s visit here in November, India on Wednesday pressed the US for easing trade in dual-use technologies and conveyed its unease over the shifting power games in Afghanistan. NSA Shivshankar Menon on Wednesday met his US counterpart James Jones and held wide-ranging discussions

The Supreme Court has dismissed the claim of a large number of Karnataka farmers for payment of interest on enhanced compensation, awarded to them by the state high court.

The GoM on Commonwealth Games on Wednesday asked all the agencies to try and finish their work by August 1 and hand them over to the organising committee (OC) as the latter also needed time for streamlining various aspects of the event.