In a subtle show of strength to China, the Indian Air Force (IAF) Tuesday landed its C-130J Super Hercules transport plane at the world’s highest and recently-activated Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) airstrip in Ladakh near the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the scene of a stand-off with Chinese troops in April.

Abdul Karim Tunda, alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba bomb expert, was Tuesday assaulted by a man said to be Hindu Sena activist in Patiala House court complex while being taken to a court by the police.

Both the precious metals, gold and silver, fell further in the national capital Tuesday on sustained selling by stockists at existing higher levels amid a weak global trend.

BJP Tuesday said it will raise the issue of missing coal block allocation files in both Houses of Parliament and expects Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who held the coal portfolio, to reply on the concerns raised by the Opposition.

Dr Sheikh Jalal-ud-din, eminent cardiologist from Kashmir, on Saturday succumbed to injuries sustained in an attack by militants a month back on the outskirts of Srinagar.

India is once again expected to reinforce the need for Sri Lanka to implement the 13th Amendment when the island nation’s foreign minister G.L.

The CRPF faces its biggest challenge in Naxal areas and will focus on minimising troop casualities as it takes on the Left wing extremists, the new chief of the country’s largest paramilitary said her

Abdul Karim got the sobriquet Tunda after he lost his forearm while making a bomb. In 1993, he was involved in the Mumbai serial train blasts.

Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has come out openly for “united Maharashtra” at a time when his own Congress, the BJP and the NCP are failing to take a convincing stand on this issue.

Attacking Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad for making casteist remarks against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi by referring to the backward community to which he belongs, the BJP on Saturday deman