BJP president Nitin Gadkari, under fire from the Congress and other Opposition parties over his intemperate political rhetoric in several recent instances, now faced criticism on the same count from a senior leader of his own party.

The Akhil Bharatiya Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti has warned that if the government does not pay heed to its demand for extending reservations to jats under the “other backward classes” category, they would disrupt the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October. It warned that the Commonwealth Games baton relay, which is now in Allahabad, might also be disrupted.

The Delhi police claimed it had cracked another honour killing case in the city with the arrest of a man who has been charged for allegedly strangulating his daughter and her lover to death in the New Friends Colony area last Saturday.

The National Institute of Public Financing and Policy (NIPFP) is ready to kickstart a Rs 3,000-crore venture capital fund to strengthen the pharma infrastructure and give a fillip to drug discovery in India.

While acknowledging the constitutional importance of a question related to “mandatory” provision in the Representation of People Act for political parties to swear by “socialism”, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL on the issue promising to revisit it when the situation so arises.

In view of several reports about the pathetic condition of juveniles in remand homes and repeated instances of delinquents fleeing from such asylums, the Centre has decided to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act to make it more humane and child friendly.

In a new twist to the dispute on the Belgaum region between Karnataka and Maharashtra, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed the latter to amend its original suit claiming the right over 800 Marathi-speaking villages of the area.

After having launched an H1N1 vaccine, the country is all set to get its first influenza vaccine in October this year.
The Drug Controller General of India, Surinder Singh, revealed that strains for the flue vaccine were being collected for a large part of 2009 from different counties across the globe.

The Indian Army will file a review petition in the Armed Forces Tribunal to oppose any change in the Kargil war records, Army sources said on Monday. In a judgement in May this year on a case filed earlier by Brig. (retd.) Devinder Singh, who was the head of the 70 Infantry Brigade during the Kargil conflict of 1999, the Armed Forces

The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council will address the “concerns” of the minorities when it takes up the Communal Violence Bill (Prevention, Control & Rehabilitation of Victims) on July 14. Sources said the focus of the meet will be on protection of the minorities, ensuring justice to them, prevention of communal violence and shielding the population threatened by mass disturbances.