The body of a young unidentified girl was recovered from a bag dumped in an apartment in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area on Friday evening.
The police said the body of the girl, believed to be in her twenties, lying in a decomposed state, was discovered when the neighbours noticed foul smell emanating from

Doubts are still being raised whether Trinamul Congress leader Mukul Roy would finally be appointed as minister for railways. So far, Mr Roy has been given the additional charge of railways as minister of state, with the Prime Minister holding the Cabinet portfolio. Sources disclosed that it remains to be seen whether Mr Roy is

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,

On a day when the Union Cabinet chose not to take a call on governor H.R. Bhardwaj’s recommendation for President’s Rule, Janata Dal(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not only to press for imposition of Central rule but also to assure him of requisite numbers to support the decision in the Rajya Sabha.

Alarmed by the declining child sex ratio (CSR) in the country, the Prime Minister’s office (PMO) has called a meeting of the concerned Central ministries on Friday to take stock of the situation. The meeting, to be chaired by the principal secretary to the Prime Minister, Mr T.K.A.Nair, will discuss how this problem can be dealt with “on a war-footing” and the alarming trend arrested.