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.

Two teenage girls who were glued to their cellphones while crossing the railway tracks were run over by a speeding train on Tuesday afternoon. The gruesome death occurred at the level crossing of the Liluah station in Howrah. The victims were identified as Himangshi Gupta and her friend Payel Agarwal. They were Class 10

The Delhi government’s Cabinet on Tuesday confirmed that a detailed and final response on the findings of the Shunglu Committee related to the Commonwealth Games irregularities has been prepared.

The Army has categorically stated that there has been no major infiltration bid from across the Line of Control so far this year and media reports suggesting that as many as 40 heavily armed militants sneaked into Jammu and Kashmir from PoK recently are “concocted and baseless”.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday inaugurated a new high-definition video conferencing which will keep the secretariat connected with all the district offices in the city. The chief minister interacted with the chief secretary and all nine deputy commissioners while sitting in a room adjacent to her office chamber.

Bodies of nine policemen, who were killed in Naxal ambush inside Amamora forest in Chhattisgarh’s Gariabandh police district on Monday afternoon, were on Tuesday recovered by security personnel. However, another policeman, part of the 10-member search party that came under the attack, was still missing. A rescue team

India is hopeful that the testimony of Headley that the ISI and its operatives were involved in the Mumbai attacks will put pressure on Pakistan on its links with the terrorists. “After the embarrassment caused to the Pakistani authorities over Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s presence in that country, Headley’s revelations about the ISI’s

The Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh has decided to embarrass the Congress by raising the issue of Muslim reservation on the eve of Assembly elections in UP.

Even after repeated attempts for a week, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has not been able to work out any formula to declare his 18-member council of ministers in Assam. This has not only increased the nervousness of