The Telangana employees general strike turned ugly on Monday following series of incidents in the state capital, including the agitators manhandling a senior transport official and an advocate who had filed “anti-Telangana” cases, and the police arresting a minister from the region.

The Congress Party on Monday strongly defended Gujarat governor Kamla Beniwal’s decision to seek details of expenses during chief minister Narendra Modi’s recent fast.

The BJP on Friday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to clarify whether his office had sought the note from the finance ministry on the 2G spectrum issue. Reiterating its demand for the then finance minister and current home minister P. Chidambaram’s resignation, the party wondered whether Mr Chidambaram was

British photographer Linnaeus Tripe’s photographs of architectural and landscape views of Mysore in 1854 are being auctioned in London November for an estimated price of up to £200,000.

Global stock markets were hit by a tsunami of selling as investors fled from the equity and commodities markets around the world and sought safe haven in the strong dollar after the US Fed on Wednesday warned of a slowdown in the US economy. The Fed also failed to pump money directly into the limp US economy

Three victims of the Delhi high court blast have not yet got the ex-gratia announced by the Delhi government. The government is still unable to identify the kin of the deceased. The government officials said that the ex-gratia was immediately given to the next to kin of 12 deceased as all of them were direct dependants but in these three cases, the officials are not able to find direct dependants.

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who was 70 when he passed away in a New Delhi hospital on Thursday evening after suffering complications in his lungs, was one of Indian cricket’s great stylists. Having lost most of the vision in his right eye in a car accident, he adapted to become a fearless batsman against pace bowling in home as well as away Tests.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has alleged that around 950 water pipelines in Delhi have been identified as passing out through drains.
The MCD Medical Relief and Public Health Committee chairman V.K. Monga wrote to the NHRC chairperson Justice K.G. Balakrishnan seeking his

The finance ministry indicated on Thursday that the note sent by the finance ministry to the PMO on the 2G spectrum allocation issue was prepared by the Cabinet Secretary under the PMO’s instructions. The finance ministry also clarified that finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had “no role” in it, while home

A teenage Jammu and Kashmir resident, arrested for his alleged involvement in the September 7 Delhi high court blast, was one of the “terrorists” and a conspirator in the incident, National Investigation Agency (NIA) told a special court on Thursday.