In order to sharpen their negotiating clout during the high-level segment of COP17, leaders of the BASIC countries came together to declare that the Durban accord must carry a clear and ratifiable decision on the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

A Delhi court denied a man the custody of his teenaged daughter after the girl said she was happy and comfortable with her mother and refused to reside with him. The court said the mother, who is employed in the ministry of defence and with whom the 15-year-old daughter has been residing, has taken good care of the girl and her paramount welfare was not with the father.

Amritsar’s BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu allegedly assaulted a security guard of a toll gate on NH5 near Sullurpeta when the windshield of his car was damaged after the guard hit it with a bolt attached to a plastic pipe on Tuesday.

A 26-year-old man, who allegedly cheated people by posing as a personal secretary of chief minister Sheila Dikshit, has been arrested by the southwest district police on Tuesday.

The special cell of the police arrested another operative of the Indian Mujahideen’s terror module from Bihar on Tuesday, taking the total number of operatives of the IM module busted last week by the Delhi police to seven.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit was admitted to a private hospital following dehydration due to high fever and viral infection and her condition is “stable”. Ms Dikshit is likely to stay in hospital for the next three or four days.

With the all-party meeting on retail FDI scheduled for Wednesday morning, all eyes are fixed on its outcome as this will determine the fate of the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament. Two weeks have already been lost due to the

The interrogation of the two arrested Indian Mujahideen operatives, who fired gunshots at the Taiwanese tourists and planted a bomb in a stolen car at Jama Masjid before the Commonwealth Games, has revealed that they had initially

In growing tension between social networking websites and the government, communications minister Kapil Sibal said Tuesday his ministry will issue guidelines to ensure that obscene and defamatory material on religious figures and national leaders are not uploaded on such websites.

Shias take part in a Muharram procession in New Delhi on Tuesday. — Biplab Banerjee