The heatwave claimed seven lives in Gujarat while northern belt continued to reel under intense hot conditions on Sunday with the mercury shooting above the 45-degree mark at several places.

Indian diplomat Madhuri Gupta, arrested for counter espionage, was reportedly in constant touch with two officials posted at Indian high commission in Canada and through them she was allegedly passing on crucial information to her handlers in some other countries.

For a party ideologically opposed to a lavish lifestyle, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) has declared an unprecedented war on comrades who have fallen in love with Mammon.

Moves are afoot between the Maharashtra Congress and the Shiv Sena-BJP to ensure that there is no contest for the six Rajya Sabha and 10 Legislative Council seats whose elections will be held next month. This is because major political parties can ensure victory of their candidates without a fight.

It will be the first press conference that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be addressing in the last four years. It will also mark his first interaction with the national media during the tenure of United Progressive Alliance-2, which completed its first year in office just a day ago.

The Delhi cabinet is likely to take up the issue of increasing the registration fee for different categories of vehicles on Monday.
The proposal, about which the government had informed during the budget, is aimed at creating different slabs of registration fees for different kinds of vehicles. The cars i

A Delhi court has facilitated the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to interrogate the former President of Medical Council of India (MCI) Ketan Desai and two others to ascertain the magnitude of the scam and trail of their ill-gotten wealth.

In continuation with the protest against hike in VAT on diesel, the petrol dealers in the capital have announced closure of all fuel stations in the capital on Monday. This will become a weekly feature if the government does not pay heed to their demand. The dealers have also threatened to resort to indefinite closure from June 14. Ajay

A man has been arrested along with his wife and a friend for allegedly committing the murder of a teenager who allegedly tried to rape his wife at knife-point in a northwest Delhi locality.

Raj Kumar, the auto driver, who died when a speeding Honda City car driven by a 30-year-old drunk woman collided head-on with his autorickshaw, is survived by five daughters. In fact, he was the only earning member of his family of nine. With his death, the family has lost the only source of livelihood. The family has demanded