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.

Pakistan needs to do more to bring Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi to justice, US ambassador to India Tim Roemer told journalists after calling on home minister P. Chidambaram.

A text message, generated from Blackberry messenger, claiming the recovery of a bomb from Vasant Kunj area of south Delhi on Wednesday turned out to be a hoax.
The police said the message has been generated by a Blackberry phone user and it got circulated to many people, triggering panic. The officials said the “badly worded” message claimed that the bomb disposal squad had recovered a bomb from Vasant Kunj.

India has reminded the US, flush from its success in liquidating Osama bin Laden, that the war on terror cannot end without the elimination of terrorist safe havens inside Pakistan.

The Delhi Metro will begin work on Phase-III in the next two months with the construction of Central Secretariat-Mandi House link. The stretch has been planned to decongest the Rajiv Chowk Metro Station that has a footfall of over four lakh everyday.

The Election Commission (EC) is contemplating to record the poll proceedings with the help of surveillance helicopters in 14 Assembly constituencies in the Maoist-infested Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore districts which would go to polls on May 10. The EC will rope in three helicopters for air surveillance in Janagalmahal from

A 48-year-old housewife was held hostage at her Maurya Enclave residence in northeast Delhi on Tuesday afternoon by six dacoits who took away cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees.

Once marginalised by his party, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi appears to have bounced back with his party planning to make him its most visible face in the run-up to next year’s Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. The party has chalked out a comprehensive plan to shortly launch its “Mission UP” with putting on the fore front Dr Joshi’s exploits as the chairman of the PAC.

The Planning Commission on Wednesday refused to be drawn into the controversy surrounding the Commonwealth Games infrastructure developed in the capital. Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, on Wednesday said that the plan panel members were satisfied with the infrastructure

Union minister for development of Northeast B.K. Handique on Wednesday said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may arrive in Itanagar to pay their last respects to Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu.