A software engineer working with an IT company in Gurgaon was stabbed and robbed by three unidentified assailants in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka area on Wednesday evening on his way back from office.

Sanyasin and senior BJP leader Uma Bharti is expected to contest the Uttar Pradesh Assemby polls from the Bundelkhand region. Party’s other heavyweights from the state including Rajya Sabha members Kalraj Mishra and

Artistes of the Shillong Chamber Choir perform at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi on Thursday. — G.N. JHA

Former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa could be on the comeback trail. If not as chief minister in the coming months, then at least as the BJP’s state unit president.

Terming government’s failure to resolve the Mullaperiyar dam issue as “paralysis of decision making,” the BJP on Thursday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to urgently call a meeting of chief ministers of both Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the two affected states.

In the backdrop of Kerala pushing hard for an out of court settlement on the vexatious Mullaperiyar issue, Tamil Nadu government has decided not to send its public works and water resources department secretary M. Saikumar for talks with Kerala on December 16.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union minister for communications & information technology Kapil Sibal during the inaugural ceremony of India Telecom 2011 “m-Powering India” at DRDO Bhavan in New De

The CBI, probing the Bhanwari Devi case, on Wednesday conducted a detailed psychological analysis test on former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna. The psychological analysis test, sources said, lasted for more than three hours.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Wednesday took strong exception to the alleged attempt by some Congress leaders to “tarnish” his image by “mischievously” linking him to allotment of mining leases in Madhya Pradesh to a private entrepreneur and threatened to sue them.

By working to give political momentum to allegations of fodder scam bribery against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, the main Opposition party RJD sees the JD(U) stalwart and NDA’s reluctant prime ministerial candidate in jail in due course like RJD boss Lalu Prasad Yadav had suffered earlier.