With swearing in of Jarbom Gamlin as the new chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, hectic lobbying has started among legislators to retain their status in the new council of ministers likely to be announced after the funeral of late chief minister Dorjee Khandu on May 11.

A city court paved the way for initiation of trial in the 2008 serial blasts case on Friday as it framed charges against 13 suspected Indian Mujahideen men for their role in the terror act which left 26 people dead and 135 injured in the city. Additional sessions judge Santosh Snehi Mann framed the charges after 11 accused, who were

Stepping up attack on the BJP, the Congress on Friday demanded Saffron leader Yashwant Sinha’s exit from the JPC for giving pre-judgment on the issue. Mr Sinha had recently held home minister P. Chidambaram “directly responsible” for the scandal as the then finance minister.

A 35-year-old man was found dead in his WagonR car in New Ashok Nagar on Friday morning with the police suspecting that the victim allegedly perished to the toxic gases released by the air conditioner of the car.

It was high drama in the Patiala House court complex since Friday morning as 43-year-old Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi, appeared on Friday at 10 am, sharp.

A 20-year-old student of Manav Rachna University in Faridabad was stabbed to death in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area on Thursday night.
The police said the victim, Shobhit Modi, a second year student of engineering, was found stabbed outside gate number 3 of C-5, Vasant Kunj, by unidentified assailants. The security guard saw him lying near the gate but owing to darkness due to powercut following rains, he presumed that the boy was drunk.

The Congress is distancing itself from the DMK on the 2G scam, suggesting that the latter will have to fight the legal and political battle on its own. The Dravadian party, which had failed to play a role of the “king maker” like TDP leader N. Chadrababu Naidu had played during the NDA regime and the Marxists in the UPA-I, is getting marginalised at the Centre.

If a rogue asteroid careens towards earth, as Hollywood thrillers Armageddon and Deep Impact have speculated, will humankind be able to destroy it before it causes awesome devastation? Student Nitin Mishra has some answers and he will espouse them before top space scientists when they meet at Bucharest in Romania next week to exchange notes on the “near-earth” flyby of asteroid 2005 YU 55.

The Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the 2G spectrum scam has revealed that the transfer of `200 crores to Chennai-based Kalaignar TV, allegedly by a company linked to Shahid Balwa, was a “quid pro quo” for Swan Telecom getting Unified Access Service (UAS) licence at a nominal price.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday reserved its order on the prosecution of 19 witnesses including model-turned-actor Shayan Munshi on charges of perjury for turning hostile during the trial in the Jessica Lal murder case.