While the UP police in Greater Noida detained 90 protesters on Monday, violent protests by farmers against forcible land acquisition continued for yet another day.
Police officers have so far claimed that the protesters detained Monday in Greater Noida have not been declared arrested. “We are questioning the detained people in

When Dr Manmohan Singh lands in Addis Ababa for the second India Africa Forum Summit that begins in two weeks in the Ethiopian capital, three years after the first tentative meet in Delhi, the marked difference between India’s “soft power” and China’s headlong rush into becoming the continent’s go-to country for infrastructure is

The Comptroller-and-Auditor-General of India has found gross irregularities in recruitment and plundering of public money by the top bosses of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO). The CAG officials have stated that they have noticed misdeeds of NTRO top officials, the CAG further pointed out that even after getting its

A special CBI court in Ghaziabad has ordered that 39-year-old Surender Koli, sentenced to death for the Nithari serial killings of children, be hanged between May 24 and 31.

Tablighi Jamaat — is it a movement involved in strictly religious activities and spreading the teachings of Islam or is it one that has developed links to “Islamist terror” in recent years? If WikiLeaks is to be believed, then the over eight-decade old Tablighi Jamaat is one that has links to the now dead Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda and was

Political equations in Maharashtra appear to be changing with RPI leader Ramdas Athawale moving closer to the Shiv Sena-BJP combine, while the NCP is feeling uncomfortable following dissolution of the board of directors of the Maharashtra state co-operative bank.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to US President Barack Obama on Monday. The conversation was described as warm and as covering a wide range of subjects.

Sitting BSP MLA Farid Mehfooz Kidwai, created a flutter in political circles on Monday when he joined the Samajwadi Party.
Mr Kidwai, who represents the Masauli Assembly segment in Barabanki district, is the first sitting BSP MLA to quit the party.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Allahabad high court’s judgment in Ayodhya title suit case and questioned the verdict partitioning the 2.77 acres of land on which the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid structure once stood between Hindus and Muslims when none of the parties had sought division of the property.

Expressing satisfaction over the Supreme Court’s interim order staying the Allahabad high court direction for tripartite division of the disputed land in Ayodhya, senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, who is also representing one of the parties in the case said, “There will be no change of situation at ground zero (the make-shift temple of