Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari might not return home to Pakistan until he is convinced he will not be put on trial for treason for seeking American help to avert a coup by his powerful Army, official sources here said.

A dog imported as cargo from Australia through a southeast Asian airline has been stuck at the IGI airport for over a month after it was “cruelly abandoned” by its owner, a person to whom it was sent. According to DIAL, the operator of the

With the parliamentary standing committee submitting its report on Lokpal in the two Houses of Parliament, another round of controversy broke out on Friday as Team Anna accused the panel of fooling people. They questioned the credibility of the report, as they claimed that only 12 of the 30 MPs supported the final report.

The BJP-led Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has rolled back all the taxes which were introduced in the MCD budget 2012. The MCD standing committee rejected the additional taxes claiming that the MCD is already in profit.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday once again led from the front in the face of the major tragedy that unfolded in a south Kolkata hospital. She arrived on the scene and took control of the situation. Holding a hand-held mike, she started giving orders. She supervised the shifting of the dead bodies to the state-run SSKM Hospital for post-mortem.

Acting on the “request” of the Delhi hc, a trial court here has dismissed criminal charges against 65 refugees from Pakistan who had filed a petition seeking that the cases against them in India be withdrawn as they would soon be migrating to third countries. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal on

Eighty-nine people were killed in a devastating fire at the Advanced Medical Research Institute (AMRI) Hospital at Dhakuria in south Kolkata early on Friday morning. It is feared the death toll may rise.

After the standing committee submitted its report on Lokpal in Parliament, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal wondered about the credibility of a report supported by “Lalu Prasad, Amar Singh and the rest from BSP”.

One of the patients is brought down by firemen during the fire at AMRI Hospital in Kolkata on Friday. Till now 89 have died in the fire, and the toll is likely to go up. — Debajyoti Sarkar

The catastrophe at AMRI Hospital on Friday once again exposed the skeleton infrastructure of the state government in tackling any emergency when the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was pressed in by the Centre to