Four-time world champion M.C. Mary Kom notched up her third Asian title while L. Sarita Devi clinched her fourth, as the Indian boxers finished fourth in the event with two gold, a silver and five bronze medals in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Sundayday.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India will choose between Airtel and Sahara as the new team sponsors after the two firms were the only ones left in the hunt for bagging the rights at the end of the deadline for submitting the bids with the requisite security deposit.

The state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) has abandoned its plans to build a civilian greenfield airport at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh after the Union government felt it would be too close to the Sino-Indian border.

It’s an alarming situation in Punjab, the granary to the nation, where heavy pesticide usage in the fields is taking a toll on the reproductive health of the people.
“Rising instances of abortion, early menarchy, foetal abnormalities especially neural tube defects and early ageing seem to have a strong correlation to the high pesticide levels in our fields,” said Dr GPI Singh, director principal, Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda.

Indian investigators will finally be able to question American-Pakistani Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative David Headley who has confessed his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. A four-member team, consisting of three officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and a law officer, are expected to leave for the United States late on Sunday night.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has abandoned its plans to build a civilian greenfield airport at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.
AAI was earlier planning to construct an airport with a “table-top” runway at Tawang in view of the mountainous terrain of the region but the plan has been scrapped after t

It was the main item on the agenda when the railways held a meeting with state home secretaries in January this year — the growing Naxal threat faced by the Indian Railways. An item in which the railways had clearly said that not only was it a “soft” target for Left-wing extremists, but also that the attacks against it by the Maoists were increasing.

On the eve of the crucial civic polls in West Bengal slated for Sunday, the Gyaneswari Express disaster in the West Midnapore district of the state had taken on increasingly political hues. While railway minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee sought a CBI probe into the disaster, Mr Sitaram Yechury, whose CPI(M) is the Trinamul’s arch rival in West Bengal, wondered why the CBI should be called in when the state CID is investigating the incident.

The heavy civilian toll in Friday’s train derailment believed to have been targeted by Maoists and blowing up a bus mainly carrying common citizens in Dantewada a week earlier are being cited as indicators of a new trend in their strategy not to spare even the common man. However, the data submitted to the Supreme Court by the

More than 50 per cent of the cities (or urban local bodies), covered under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), have been given “investment grade rating” in the area of urban infrastructure by top rating agencies like Crisil, ICRA and FITCH.