The 2G scam accused, DMK MP Kanimozhi, on Saturday woke up to reality in a 15 ft by 10 ft cell of Tihar Jail. Jail officials said she woke up at 5.30 am, had morning tea and breakfast after a roll call with fellow inmates and then went out for a walk with a constable provided for her security on the prison premises.

The CBI has booked a case of murder and criminal conspiracy against an Andhra Pradesh police party for killing Azad, alias Cherukuri Raj Kumar, a top Maoist, and freelance journalist Hemachandra Pandey in an “encounter” on July 1, 2010, in the forests of Adilabad.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced that 400 acres from Tata Motors’ abandoned Nano project at Singur would be returned to the unwilling farmers. Chairing the first Cabinet meeting of the new government just five hours after being sworn in, Ms Banerjee also took some other stupendous decisions like invitation to Justice

Indian Air Force vice-chief Air Marshal N.A.K. Browne will be the next chief of the IAF, the government announced on Friday. He will take over as the Chief of Air Staff on July 31, 2011 when the current chief Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik retires. Air Marshal Browne’s tenure as the IAF chief will be up to December 31, 2013, IAF officers said.

Holding that the husband could not be allowed to subjugate wife only because he is physically strong, the Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence to a sex maniac from Chhattisgarh for strangling his wife to death after she refused to oblige him with cohabitation on his persistent demands.

The world’s biggest solar energy project is set to come up in Dhule, with the state Cabinet deciding to sanction crores of rupees for it.

IT’S NOW two decades since it happened but the horror haunts me still. It seems like last night, though it happened on the night of May 21, 1991. Congress senior leader G.K. Moopanar and his political pupil Jayanthi Natarajan were bending over the crumpled body lying face down. Moopanar hesitantly tried turning the body to see the face,

Putting the entire blame of the goof up in India’s “most wanted” list of terrorists on the home ministry, the main Opposition BJP on Friday demanded home minister P. Chidambaram’s resignation over the issue. Terming the incident as “very unfortunate” the party asked whether the ministry was a “post office” which passes on anything

A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was convened on Thursday to discuss Karnataka governor Hansraj Bhardwaj’s report recommending President’s Rule in the state. But it failed to arrive at a decision, as leaders also looked at the possibility of recalling the governor. It

The Danish high court has rejected main accused in the 1995 Purulia arms drop case Kim Davy’s plea that the CBI’s arrest warrant cannot be the basis for his extradition to India since it had expired. The Danish court is likely to hear India’s plea seeking extradition of Davy in the first week of July.