Defending his ministerial colleague Jairam Ramesh for his remarks on IITs and IIMs faculty members, water resources and minority affairs minister Salman Khursheed on Wednesday said, his views were just informal academic exchange and this should not be discouraged.

Defying diktat of the party mandarins not to criticise the party line in public, former state land and land reforms minister and state committee member of the Marxist party Abdur Rezzak Mollah on Wednesday fired another salvo against the party satraps.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the Tihar jail authorities to thoroughly examine an iPad to be used by the 2G spectrum scam co-conspirator, Asif Balwa, for reading digitalised case files in the prison, to ascertain if the electronic gadget can be misused for communication.

Former Union minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief on Wednesday said Ms Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is “there in politics” and takes “centrestage” in party affairs because she has “greater mass appeal”.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday stayed the release and circulation of the book Close Encounters with Niira Radia authored by criminal lawyer R.K. Anand which is based on the life of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will hold a meeting with Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday to discuss the financial condition of the state government. This proposed meeting assumes significance as the Congress and the Trinamul Congress have alleged that the earlier Left Front government has made the state bankrupt.

Over 20 senior Army officers of the rank of major-general have been cleared for promotion to the rank of lieutenant-general by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh under the current two-stream promotion policy followed by the Army, defence sources confirmed on Wednesday evening.

For Dharampal Yadav, son of a poor truck driver from Bihar’s Vaishali district, this year’s IIT-JEE results came with the sweet fruit of hard work and gritty guidance.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) on Wednesday finalised its recommendations on the proposed amendments to the Land Acquisition Act. If the government agrees to the suggestions and the Parliament passes them, the land owners would be entitled to get six times the registered value of their land as

A nine-seater aircraft with seven persons on board — two doctors, a 19-year-old patient in critical condition, two relatives of the patient, and two pilots — crashed late on Wednesday night over Parvatiya Colony, a residential area in Faridabad, Haryana.